Zelda says it is big-hearted and smart. I agree.

I study nature so as not to do foolish things.

Funny, wise, weird. Was an honor to be on a panel with Helen Garner at the Brooklyn Book Festival

"As usual she was taking on the job of sticking a pin in my heart not to stop it but to make it beat harder."

"...the sole purpose of constructing living hearts..."

Well, duh

I understood only later that I can be quietly unhappy, because I'm incapable of violent reactions, I fear them, I prefer to be still, cultivating resentment.

Thank you mail faeries

Hello, weekend

"'Like' and 'like' and 'like'--but what is the thing that lies beneath the semblance of the thing?"
From one of my favorites, including Bookmark from my addition, a 1976 Lowes student discount card.

Whoa this is fierce.

From Maggie Nelson's mentor. Ready to be upended.

"This is a book braver than I am."
Mind being blown.

Happiness at 30,000 feet

Early contender for best title of the year

"What machines of comforting delusions we humans are."

Love me a good, surprising shelf talker

Raymond Pettibon Political Works, way ahead of its time, which is coming back

The book on heaviest rotation right now. I keep returning to "Timberland" and "Mariposa and the Doll."

Eye-opening look at how American hip-hop influences Muslim youth around the world