watching Mikey and Nicky for the first time, and Falk and Cassavetes are terrific together.

poor planning, undefeated. Hard rain and cold af. Wrong clothes, wet boots, borrowed jacket, broken umbrella.

my first black squirrel/Wesleyan University campus.

Wrote about whether working-class voters are finally abandoning Trump — and whether Democrats can take advantage of their growing discontent. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Good timing. Started this book today. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

Terrific road-trip article by James Lasdun in LRB. He drove across the USA, dropping in on random court hearings as a public observer, collecting snapshots of America's justice system and people caught up in it. Loved reading this. Makes me want to do the same. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

the beagles demand an early morning walk once it hits 60 degrees, so I see so many animals (even a bear) finishing up the night shift.

Goddamn America: "Surrounding the shield is a band of text featuring Patel’s director title and his favored spelling of his first name: Ka$h. An eagle holds the shield in its talons, along with the number 9, presumably a reference to Patel’s place in the history of FBI directors"

watching those current beagle rescue videos and whispering to myself, you should get a 3rd beagle.

Concur (currently reading)

Leon Botstein finally leaving Bard College as of June 30th. (Got sent a text with the message sent to the Bard Community)

"One of the privileges of living in a place forgotten is the preservation of individuality." Just one of many sentences I'm smitten with found in the first chapter of "This is Happiness" by Niall Williams.

Amazing new video w/ Yung Lean. Mind-blowing choreography and packed with references, eg to Blue Spring (Toshiaki Toyoda, 2001) and video game Bully (Rockstar Games, 2006) youtu.be/x6_mbnsh6VU

Just insane slap to the people who so bravely helped us, and then had to flee their country because of a withdrawal Trump agreed to with the Taliban. He is reliably never on the side of human rights

A Place for Us is a favorite. muslimsisterhood.substack.com/p/fatima-far...

If you get a shot to see this Waxahatchee and MJ Lenderman tour, do it. They play together for the whole set- take turns with vocals, background vocals. Gorgeous and intimate and leans twang, acoustic, country. Really rather beautiful and soothing.

Went to the library to check on my volunteer app (shelving!) & walked out w/ a neighborhood book club! Reading Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow (Zevin) for Saturday afternoon. The Sentence (Erdrich) and What We Can Know (McEwan) are on tap for summer. Please let this be great. Amen.

Wout van Aert forever: defector.com/wout-van-aer...

I just need these people to land.

visiting my mom and at a restaurant. An older guy I knew through an older cousin was there. He once defended me from guys my age who were making fun of me/my looks when I was maybe 12? Point: years later,I remember what he said then, and it still counts today.

Indian novelists, writing in direct response to ongoing sociopolitical changes in India, are painting a picture of what it means to be young and disenchanted in a deeply polarized country,

It was so quiet before every one of Kyle Bradish's pitches during Konnor Griffin's first MLB at-bat you could have heard a pin drop at PNC Park. Then the crowd erupted as the No. 1 prospect in baseball began his career with this RBI double, giving Pirates 1-0 lead over Orioles.

Favorite band I saw last year. About to see Waxahatchee and MJ Lenderman again and predict both cover one of his songs. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/a...

I started covering this last year, and I can't overstate how important this is: the Trump administration officially labeled some of the most commonly-used forms of birth control as 'abortion' jessica.substack.com/i/173447780/...

Watching the Chris Fleming special on HBO, Live at the Palace & it is incredibly funny.

How have I never seen a sleeping, sunbathing squirrel before today!? Nature for the win.

How the Booker Prize has reflected the new golden age of Irish fiction thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...

Luther watching that musical performance. He's Team Sinners.

On this year’s Oscar movies (and Melania), for @nplusonemag.com: www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

I just had virtually the same conversation with my nephew (humanities edition) - he’s graduating college in May and had wanted to go into academia but says it’s totally infeasible with so many departments not taking grad students and funding drying up. We’re losing an entire generation of scholars.

Watching Orson Welles documentary?, F for Fake. Reminds me a bit of Eco's Travels in Hyperreality- particularly a making of a film about it all

Would love to take a/his Innovations in Indian Literature course. Look forward to reading this one.

You read the post on Tuesday! Now listen to the podcast episode on divorce-guy risk-taking and why Trump is never going to stop. (Just keep in mind that I'm talking about a specific subset of divorce guys here—a staggering number of whom happen to work for Trump.)

Watching Megadoc (about the making of Megalopolis), and it is both fascinating and stressful AF. No way I'm seeing that film.

Saw the first snake (juvenile corn) of the season this morning. Sunbathing at 8am on March 6th. The audacity.

Today the Israelis ordered the evacuation of the southern suburbs of Beirut. This included a couple Palestinian refugee camps. People who were displaced during the Nakba or in 67, settled in Beirut and now their grand/great grandchildren are once again displaced.

Using leg press at the gym & briefly pause. Annoyed 60ish guy approaches, says When are you going to be done? I say, What?!? surprised by his tone(reserved for women) Say 1 more set. An 80 yr old man says, that guy was rude. Walks over to him to tell him so as I rerack the weights. Be the 80 yr old.

Reading Ben Markovits’ novel, The Rest of Our Lives, and the main character mentions attempting a dissertation on Updike and realized that’s exactly whose voice I’ve been hearing for the first 70 pages or so. I kept trying to place it, so relieved.

Look at that swing.

Deep dive on Afghan Zero Unit members, CIA paramilitary veterans, living in the US under threat of deportation. @wesleymorgan.bsky.social and Matthieu Aikins. Pics via Victor J. Blue, long time visual chronicler of Afghanistan and its people in war. 🎁 link www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/m...

Some exciting news! I'm working with a bunch of talented editors, illustrators, and writers to put together Golden Goal, a one-off print magazine about the 2026 World Cup. If you're interested in supporting us, we're currently doing a small fundraiser www.kickstarter.com/projects/mag...

Great interview- covers his work on Days of Heaven (a fav), working w/ Malick, David Lynch (best friends since HS!, etc. Team Deakins: JACK FISK - Production Designer share.google/4Oud5ITpOgTB...

I get so happy to have written my little movie japes and then I have time to read @sirosenbaum.bsky.social's latest installment of Teeth Beach and realize how high the bar actually is. Just terrific. flaminghydra.com/issue-505/#t...

I made her go for a walk in the rain.

Quite liking both of these if you're looking for fiction centered on the lives of women/female friendship- Heart Lamp: Selected Stories/Banu Mushtaq Thirst Trap/Gráinne O'Hare

love that they are playing Massive Attack in my ENT's waiting room

ICYMI: went mystic mode on the cinema of today