February 24, 2020
Gleanings
- I gave him the two pages in which the painting is mentioned in the novel and based on those two pages, he did the painting in three days. It’s not a portrait of a real person. I bought the painting from him. It’s hanging in our den. I never get tired of it.
- Can you even bear to think about putting a half-read chunkster back on the shelf and ‘resting’ it for a few weeks…
- But the other thing about Tyler’s novels is that while her characters may stray, they almost always come home again.
- Never in my wildest dreams did I think I’d use a rolling pin as often as I do.
- What even is real life?
- Dialogue tips from The Port Authority
- …in the end, life is just an ephemeral garden of memories, a paradise we create with missteps, a paradise created as we bring together the broken pieces…
- The Buxton Chronicles is Curtis’s masterwork. It transforms the Elgin settlement into a version of Hannibal, Missouri, where Mark Twain grew up: a setting of idyllic boyhoods, full of pranks and woodsy adventure, in which Curtis examines themes of slavery, race, and class from an unequivocally Black perspective.
- Why High-Achieving Women Pretend Their Lives Are in Shambles
- When I read that Marie Kondo now started an online store, I felt like I’d been had somehow and I haven’t done much de-cluttering since.
- It felt like one of those Escher paintings where you’re climbing stairs to nowhere that never end.
- And the level of homesickness Ginzburg was feeling for her large family comes through strongly as she evokes them all while maintaining a personal privacy.
- Just after we turned out our reading lamps, the coyotes started singing.
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How delightful to glean some of these little gems