Benjamin Morrison

Read my review of “The Unspeakable Skipton” by Pamela Hansford Johnson. It was just republished by @mcnallyeditions.com

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The Sweet Dove Died Leonora was also going to a party that night, though of a different kind from the one James had been invited to. Hers was just dinner with a woman she had known in the days when she had a job. The …

“Leonora was also going to a party that night, though of a different kind from the one James had been invited to.” Read from Barbara Pym’s iconic novel, The Sweet Dove Died.

Still upset there is no Addison Rae show in Louisiana.

Ecological Warfare, by Nathaniel Rich A swamp-rat slaughter on the bayou

“The rules of the Louisiana Nutria Rodeo are simple: From the strike of midnight on a Friday morning in February, your kill crew has forty hours to shoot as many swamp rats as possible.” —Nathaniel Rich

Discovered that through my library I get free digital subscriptions to NYRB, The Paris Review, The New Yorker, Harper’s, and Garden & Gun!