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Photograph of a man in an Easter bunny suit holding balloons.

Me, Easter 1990, Astoria, Queens. Satisfying community service hours in the most ridiculous manner possible.

Cover images of “Lost Children Archive” by Valeria Luiselli, “Ghosts” and “The Locked Room” by Paul Auster, “The Old Drift” by Namwali Serpell, “Babel” and “Yellowface” by R.F. Kuang, and “If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler” by Italo Calvino.

March Reads.

Thandiwe does an incredible job with that narration! How many characters, how many different voices!

Fantastic job! Thanks for stepping up.

IIRC, the 1998 master agreement between "Big Tobacco" (BT) and state AGs required BT to take action against third party use of BT IP that BT itself could not do under the agreement, i.e., use BT IP on merchandise other than tobacco products. Wonder if that plays a role in this.

Listening to “Babel,” by R.F. Kuang and reading “If On A Winter’s Night A Traveler,” by Italo Calvino.

Plus . . . hilarious.

My daughter loved to have us boo and throw dinner napkins at her when she would practice her theater songs.

Listening to Namwali Serpell's "The Old Drift," reading Paul Auster's "The Locked Room," and getting ready to take the family to Paris.

Cover images of Robert McGill’s “A Suitable Companion for the End of Your Life,” Susanna Clarke’s”Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell,” Gary Shteyngart’s “Super Sad True Love Story” and “The Russian Debutante’s Handbook,” Paul Auster’s “City of Glass,” and Colson Whitehead’s “Harlem Shuffle” and “Crook Manifesto.”

February 2026 Reading List - Good month.

Cover shots of my January 2026 reading list — “The Staircase in the Woods,” “The Buffalo Hunter Hunter,” “Sophie’s Choice,” and “Fun Home.”

Absolutely loving "Harlem Shuffle" right now and "Crook Manifesto" is ready on deck.

Reading Paul Auster’s “The New York Trilogy,” and listening to Colson Whitehead’s “Harlem Shuffle.”

And watching “Pachinko” and trying not to get misty every time I see a bowl of white rice.

Reading Gary Shteyngart’s “The Russian Debutante’s Handbook.”

Photo of musician Brandi Carlile wearing a Thom Browne suit while performing at Super Bowl LX.

Able to recognize that Brandi Carlile was wearing Thom Browne due to the four stripes that adidas sued over. Fashion Streisand effect in effect.

“Zuleika Dobson,” by Max Beerbohm (1911). Absolutely crazy satire of British society and Oxford culture.

Hoping to finish listening to Susanna Clarke's "Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norell" (amazing!) and reading Robert Butler's "A Suitable Companion for the End of Your Life."

Make It Ours: Virgil Abloh, Robin Givhan
Motion Dazzle, Jocelyn Jane Cox
System Collapse, Martha Wells
Fugitive Telemetry, Martha Wells
Network Effect, Martha Wells
So Late In The Day, Claire Keegan
Small Things Like These, Claire Keegan

Frederick Douglass, Donald Blight
Hamnet, Maggie O'Farrell
Nevada, Imogene Binnie
Severance, Ling Ma
My Effin Life, Geddy Lee
The Secret History, Donna Tartt
The Vanishing Half, Brit Bennett
American War, Omar El Akkad

Sea of Tranquility, Emily St. John Mandel
A Mercy, Toni Morrison
Automatic Noodle, Annalee Newitz
Foundation, Isaac Asimov
A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. Le Guin
Chain Gang All Stars, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Loving, Henry Green
Runaway, Alice Munro

The Savage Detectives, Roberto Bolano
Cultish, Amanda Montell
If Beale Street Could Talk, James Baldwin
The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
The Leftovers, Tom Perotta
White Teeth, Zadie Smith
There There, Tommy Orange
The Glass Hotel, Emily St. John Mandel
The Round House, Louise Erdrich

The Love Songs of W.E.B. DuBois, Honoree Fanonne Jeffers
The Fifth Season, N.K. Jemisin
The Obelisk Gate, N.K. Jemisin
When the Wolf Comes Home, Nat Cassidy
The Stone Sky, N.K. Jemisin
James, Percival Everett
H Is for Hawk, Helen Macdonald
The Namesake, Jumpa Lahiri

Rogue Protocol, Martha Wells
Exit Strategy, Martha Wells
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie
Nothing to See Here, Kevin Wilson
Sula, Toni Morrison
Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver
The Dream Hotel, Laila Lalami
Pachinko, Min Jin Lee

The Intuitionist, Colson Whitehead
Olive Kitteridge, Elizabeth Strout
Zone One, Colson Whitehead
Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro
The Buried Giant, Kazuo Ishiguro
Americanah, Chimamada Ngozie
All Systems Red, Martha Wells
Artificial Condition, Martha Wells

2025 Reading List:
Outline, Rachel Cusk
The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion
The Vegetarian, Han Kang
Citizen, Claudia Rankine
The Mountain Lion, Jean Stafford
A Visit from the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan
Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi
Prophet Song, Paul Lynch

Just finished Styron’s “Sophie’s Choice” (oof) and started Clarke’s “Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell” (fun so far). Started third watch of “Sinners,” but switched over to a rewatch of “O Brother Where Art Thou.”