Closing a show (especially a John Gallagher Jr. show) after two weeks should be grounds for criminal charges!!!!! Producers of Swept Away you will be answering for your crimes

My sister Elphaba was an abolitionist (in a land that depended on the subjugation of an entire species to persist) and refused to use her gifts to perpetuate the status quo and that’s just tea

Had the great privilege of being a judge for the National Book Awards this year and the celebration last night was everything and more. Grateful, always, for good people and good books.

I’ve been off of text-based social media for so long now I have to relearn how to engage with this little word machine

'This process includes the replacement of all first-rate talents, regardless of their political loyalties, with crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is the best guarantee of their loyalty.' (The Origins of Totalitarianism, renewed version, A Harvest Book New York, 1976, 339)