Rachel Cusk’s “The Last Supper: A Summer In Italy”, if you want to get real.

Enjoy! First read in 1968. Read again in 2020. Probably Gissing’s best, but I think he’s under appreciated.

Wild Thing: A Life Of Paul Gauguin - Sue Prideaux /
Things In Nature Merely Grow - Yiyun Li

Any Ideas on what non-elites can or should be doing despite elite rollovers?

Is there a publicly source where all the pardons and commutations Trump has granted can be accessed?

If you were eligible to vote and you didn’t vote for Harris you helped elect Trump. Full stop.

be afraid to do it not “decide not to”

How is this helpful, or even informative, much less joyful?

This Court Should Not Presume Good Faith by the Attorney General Historically, Courts rightly presumed that the Executive branch "properly discharged its official functions." United States v. Armstrong, 517 U.S. 456, 464 (1996). "Absent a preliminary showing of arbitrary action, the Court must assume that the Attorney General's decision (to seek the death penalty) was made in good faith." United States v. Saipov, 2019 WL 624176, at *2 (S.D.N.Y. Feb. 14, 2019); United States v. Kee, 2000 WL 863119, at *4 (S.D.N.Y. June 27, 2000). With a few exceptions, for over two hundred years the Executive Branch earned the presumption of good faith. Over the last two months, it lost it.

It's an important request on its face, but — in light of Trump's statements today and the other litigation ongoing across the country — I also want to highlight an argument his lawyers forthrightly make: The court should not presume the good faith of this government. www.lawdork.com/p/luigi-mang...

I would

And they want to lower his taxes.

And Musk’s net worth is 7 times the amount of Harvard’s endowment.

Yes! Encouraging diversity in all occupations is ethically right.

A jointly authored novel - literary fiction - somehow seems not quite right to me - perhaps you could say a few words about it on your podcast sometime

Award nominations can make me look again at books that I didn’t consider reading after reading a review, as well as introduce me to books I wasn’t aware of. I read a lot, mostly literary fiction, and previous award winners and nominees are a good way to find interesting books.

“We are still here.”

Phillip Roth
Thomas Bernhard
Jon Fosse
Willa Cather
Fyodor Dostoevsky

PBS live streamed it

I have long wondered why people like Trump for other than political reasons? People who worked for him but also seemed to genuinely like him like Hope Hicks for example?

Ahh, thanks

Zone? Author?