A Public Address System

Only touch it once.

First, rent a van.

Sure, the movie was fine, but I couldn’t buy Zendaya as Athena.

The father was at work.

I was ranting to a friend about something and she said, so do you like anything?

You’re going to want to eat some ice cream during your visit.

I try not to be superstitious, honest, but as one gets older they creep in.

Yesterday Anne Trubek, founder and publisher of Belt Publishing, posted the provocatively titled “Are Agents Now The Real Publishers?

The other day on Substack Ross Barkan wrote a note about Ben Lerner and how he didn’t publish frequently and how that surprised him — how back in the good old days successful writers published a book every couple of years.

I love the feeling of commerce in the morning.