Lyric Research: A Conversation On Writing, Documentary Work, And Getting Lost Ross Gay Sam Stephenson 9/17/26 7 p.m. - 8 p.m. Central Library If you'll be in Madison, this should be fun. www.wisconsinbookfestival.org/events/lyric...

I read this excellent essay on Susan Stewart by Ange Mlinko last night. Stewart's work moves to the top of my list. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Ange Mlinko · On Susan Stewart

For Stewart, this is what poetic process is: the closely observed emergence of empirical knowledge out of chaos,...

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A great new classical solo piano record. Highly recommended. Unique sequence of material both venerable and brand new, and tremendous performances by Sarah Rothenberg.

Every new novel is now designed by the same person or AI algo. This is the terrific store in Austin TX, BookPeople, yesterday.

The word “honestly” is the new “literally”

this may well be the defining joke of our era theonion.com/guy-who-suck...

Guy Who Sucks At Being A Person Sees Huge Potential In AI

SAN MATEO, CA—After spending the past three decades of his life being totally unable and unwilling to engage in any meaningful way with the world around him, James Parker, a local guy who sucks at bei...

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North Haven (ME) Public Library this morning.

People that wouldn't know Rory Sparrow from Woody Woodpecker are now claiming to have been Knicks fans since the 70s.

Many thanks to @flakphoto.news for snapping this pic and sending it to me this past weekend. My book Jazz Loft Project on display in City Lights in San Francisco. Thank you, Andy.

Cameron Maynard came out of nowhere and is one of the finest freelance writers I've worked with. This guy doesn't waste a single sentence, longform, shortform. An artist. Here's a lovely scene piece with his dad at a high school baseball game in East Texas. texashighways.com/travel/drill...

Driller Park Is an East Texas Field of Dreams

On a ballpark road trip, a father and son return to a field they both once played on

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The Deep Vellum Music & Literature Festival has its headliners! Join Hanif Abdurraqib, Jamila Woods, and so many other great artists this July 10th-12th in beautiful Dallas. Tickets available now: www.deepvellum.org/festival

Passing through downtown Camden, Maine, I came across this small shop. It's now of of my top 5 favorite carefully and beautifully curated shops. There's even a turntable spinning records behind the counter. Link in comments.

My favorite place to sit in the world. Pamlico River, NC, brackish water, it takes a dirt road to get here. This area depopulated by more than 50% since 1900. Bad for tobacco farmers and crabbers, good for nature. Bluebirds everywhere.

Outstanding essay. Surprise Joseph Mitchell reference.

London Review of Books@lrb.co.uk · 4mo ago

‘To Willa Cather, the bad women are the women who marry men of intellect, promise and diligence – and then clip their wings and dissipate their energies.’ @tricialockwood.bsky.social on the American novelist. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

One of the great lines. "The only time I have to think is when I take a shit at the office." Julie Delpy. Before Midnight. In an argument with her husband Ethan Hawke, with whom she shares two daughters while having a full-time job.

View from my room, last day in Tokyo.

Best logo ever for a transport company. Today in Tokyo.

Will be in Tokyo next week and week after for this exhibition opening and events and then Bill Evans research. Thoughts or suggestions? topmuseum.jp/e/contents/e...

Work station. Old clapboard cottage. Matagorda, TX. Today.

Eastern N.C. barbecue sauce. Will be ready to consume in 2 weeks.

Just got this ARC of Emily LaBarge's upcoming book. Stoked. She's a brilliant thinker and writer.

In film after film, Frederick Wiseman watched with preternatural patience as systems revealed themselves through the tenacious, irreducible vitality of the people inside them. I kept returning to his films while reporting my book, hoping to absorb some of that patience. Such a profound loss.

Frederick Wiseman Dies at 96: The Documentary Legend Was One of Cinema’s Greatest Masters

Wiseman's 50-plus year career started with a bang, "Titicut Follies," and only got better.

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People are desperate to feel connected, to feel community and meaning. I can see that being manifest in many developments, some heartwarming, some forced, and some of everything.

A pet peeve is going to a museum in the dead of winter, a visit I had been anticipating highly, and then being unpleasantly warm/hot inside, sweating actually. Yesterday my base layer was wet with sweat. Not sure why many museums are so warm in the winter and cold in the summer.

Headed to Vancouver and then Sechelt, B.C. this week. Any and all suggestions are welcome and appreciated.

Anybody else feel like the New York Times cooking section daily recipes are often mediocre? So many of them look great, and then I try them, verbatim, and the results are pretty lame.

I own W. Eugene Smith’s custom made stainless steel darkroom sink, made circa 1957 for his loft at 6th Ave and 28th NYC

Joshua J. Friedman@joshuajfriedman.com · 7mo ago

I own Cindy Sherman's bedside radio

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