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Volcano erupting birds and stars colors are lava orange/pink

Black and white photo of a woman's raised bare legs crossed at the ankle

Illustration of four older women sitting around a table the title Still Talking us written across the hair of the woman with her back to us

A drawing of Alice B.Toklas with a horn growing out of her forehead. A novel is written on the horn

Here are four covers I like of forthcoming books.

Sunlight on a bare branched tree against a radiant blue sky

Sunday afternoon.

I hope they send another strongly worded letter.

A copy of Still Talking by Lore Segal atop Tell Me a Mitzi.

Sunday March 1: "March 1 Next to Godliness" by Lore Segal.
"At Monday Ladies' Lunch, Bridget told her friends the bad thing she had done on her way over."

Photo of a puffed up pigeon sitting on a solid metal grate surrounded by green grass. From March 2025 in Seattle.

March 2026 a short story every morning to keep the endless screaming away.

A black and white kitten with a devilish look on his face as he attacks a strip of fleece wand toy. He's sitting in his cat tree. This was six years ago.

Here's László as a nutty kitten.

The goddamned six o'clock news makes sure I keep thinking of World War III

The King is mad

A copy of The Best American Food and Travel Writing 2025 atop a stack of books there's a pocket Constitution behind the book

Saturday February 28: "How to Eat a Rattlesnake" by John Paul Brammer.
"My mother made a point of raising well-spoken Oklahomans."

A cardboard box containing the best beans ever! An overstuffed bookcase is behind the box.

Friday? Nope! Today is @ranchogordo.bsky.social Bean Club Day!

Congratulations! Definitely frame it!

A copy of That Old Country Music atop a stack of books.

Friday February 27: "Ox Mountain Death Song" by Kevin Barry.
"He had been planting babies all over the Ox Mountains since he was seventeen years old."

Yes!

A copy of That Old Country Music atop a stack of books

Thursday February 26: "That Old Country Music" by Kevin Barry.
"Hannah Cryan waited in the Transit van up in the Curlews "

Pink clouds and trees

Pink clouds and trees

Wednesday evening

Black Bag by Luke Kennard The Silent Period by Francesca Manfredi The Disappearing Act by Maria Stepanova and translated by Sasha Dugdale All

I read the galleys of these three books together back in October. An unplanned trio on vanishing.
Both The Silent Period and The Disappearing Act are out now and Black Bag lands in a few weeks.
@ndbooks.bsky.social @wwnorton.com
@zandoprojects.bsky.social

Big clouds and blue sky over Lake Washington

Wednesday morning

A copy of The Best American Food and Travel Writing 2025 atop a stack of books.

Wednesday February 25: "The People Who Feed America Are Going Hungry" by Ayurella Horn-Muller. "Standing knee-deep in an emerald expanse, a row of trees offering respite from the sweltering heat, Rosa Morales diligently relocates chipilín, a Central American legume,from one bed of soil to another."

The ship's creaking
Taking on bullshit

Bare branched tree against a purplish evening light

Tuesday evening at the bus stop.

Sun on trees

Sun!

Here, thou incestuous, murd’rous, damned Dane,
Drink off this potion! Is thy union here?
Follow my mother!

[King dies.]

That’s when you fake about to barf and hastily exit.

A copy of That Old Country Music atop a stack of books.

Tuesday February 24: "Roma Kid" by Kevin Barry.
"She watched her brothers sleeping but not for long and left them in the grey dimness of a February morning that was not half to life."

Yes!

"Sexy, druggy, and distorted" Hell yeah!

I'm not either.

I'm due for a reread soon!

Thank you!

I’m not at WI, but I’d love a copy!