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In my nightmare, I am in my bedroom.

Yes, we are stacking once again.

In the lush expanse of nature, car doors beep and car alarms blare as people laugh and a generator hum mixes with the noise of mosquitoes.

"Yeah you know, we don't know what to feed him.

It's wonderful that for a couple of weeks every summer the sun is an orange-red eye in a sky choked with smoke because, for now, it's just a couple of weeks.

"We should check the basement."

I recommend this heartbreaking long-form profile of the American writer William Vollmann: https://bigreaderbadgrades.substack.com/p/we-always-leave-things-unfinished Vollmann writes exhaustively about North American history, sex workers, death, the enviro…

I'll confess: I've been a sucker for comic books since the convenience store spinner rack days.

THE POWER BROKER IS A ROBERT CARO BOOK ABOUT ROBERT MOSES.

I delight in a stack of books, and can fool myself into thinking I know what I'll want to read next.