Popping into Bluesky after a social media respite to bring you this amazing story that Liz Egan and Katie Rosman have been working on for months.
I almost screamed when I got to the Audra graf at the end. "Then she turned to the window and sighed, 'What a beautiful day.'"
I'm sure it's a Memorial Day thing, but there have been fighter jets screaming over the house for the last 15 minutes (I live in the Hudson Valley). It's just an instant flashback to 9/11 and I need it to stop.
Been waiting for @oliviawaite.com’s take on Terry Pratchett’s body of work and here it is!
I'm a fan of Kevin Wilson's quirky family dramas, so this one's on my to-read list.
Good morning! A slew of new books coming out today. FIrst up is Ron Chernow's long-awaited biography of Mark Twain. (Spoiler alert: Our critic Dwight Garner really, really doesn't like it.)
"But it turns out that 'James' was not the top pick among the Pulitzer’s five fiction jury members. It wasn’t even in the top three, according to three people with knowledge of the process, who were not authorized to speak about the confidential deliberations."
You don't even need to be a subscriber to read these! You just need to have registered with the Times, and you get a certain number of free articles every month.
Why memorize a poem? As A.O. Scott writes, "At a time when we are flooded with texts, rants and A.I. slop, a poem occupies a quieter, less commodified corner of your consciousness. It’s a flower in the windowbox of your mind."
If you're a registered reader, there isn't a paywall.
Join us at the Book Review as we embark on a week-long voyage to help you memorize a poem — something to fill the soul and focus the mind.
is there still a used book store?
"Mr. Hegseth’s aides had warned him a day or two before the Yemen strikes not to discuss such sensitive operational details in his Signal group chat ... It was unclear how Mr. Hegseth ... responded to those warnings."
I get a lot of yellow-bellied sapsuckers in the yard, too, though they would never come to a feeder.
In the winter I have a suction-cup suet feeder attached to one of my kitchen windows, and the downy and hairy woodpeckers love it.
downy woodpecker
Felt good to laugh.
I go back and forth between listlessly scrolling online, paging through the last 6 months of the New Yorker, and trying — and failing — to read a book.
You did BOTH at the same time???
Five days out from a knee replacement, I think I might live after all. This is ROUGH.
"I can recognize the ptarmigan’s plumage and the petals of St. John’s wort from her descriptions, without the aid of a single image," Sadie Stein writes. "The smell of sawed pine is 'like strawberry jam on the boil, but with a tang that tautens the membranes of nose and throat.'"
Our latest project at the Book Review — a curated page of fantasy novel recommendations — is live. Maybe reading a fantasy novel is just the ticket right now!
If you've never read anything by Tanith Lee, Silvia Moreno-Garcia knows where you should start.
"And so we beat on, boats against the current, borne ceaselessly back into a book that its author considered calling 'Trimalchio in West Egg,'" Tony Scott writes. "Would we still be talking about it if he had?
"But he called it 'The Great Gatsby' and we are."
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If you need a moment of beauty and calm this morning, dip into Tony Scott's latest poetry close read.
We’ve published a few of what we’re calling “starter packs” this year, and today we’ve got another: classic private-eye detective novels, brought to you by our wonderful crime fiction columnist @sarahweinman.com.
