This girl takes her sleep very seriously. #hermothersdaughter


New arrival!


On wrath, contemptuous smugness, and slower thinking: Alan Jacobs interviewed by Emma Green for the Atlantic.


Beautiful mist on the lake this morning.


Big leaf pile, beautiful day


The wonderful Andrew O’Hagen on literature vs. “the dark babble of social media.”


The London Review of Books has a new podcast up, on Auden. It’s excellent. Supplement with Alan Jacobs on “The Public Poetry of W. H. Auden”.


Current listening: two albums from London’s jazz scene: Nubya Garcia’s Nubya’s Five (check out her cover of “Contemplation”); Alfa Mist’s Antiphon.


If forced to pick the greatest song of all time, I might choose “I Want You Back”. That bass line…


Turns out things are pretty much the same, except wetter, and Siri works better.