Not joking to say that I am truly excited that my Grub Street Diary earned one of these:

Best-reviewed titles in February @charmspen1 Kyle Buchanan @NinadeGramont Gerrick Kennedy Catherine Ostler Dan Saladino Richard Chizmar karen cheung Laura Coates Marlon James Danya Kukafka Joel Agee Garrett M. Graff Brendanslocumb Julia May Jonas washingtonpost.com/books/2022/02/…

Am now convinced that Instagram is like how I felt when I visited certain areas of the South: nice on the surface, deeply sinister below.

This interview for Frieze was a very good one. We talked about how Vlad the character is a 2021 kind of man, and how it would be devastating to see a Boomer fall on the street. Thank you Ian Bourland for a stellar conversation. frieze.com/article/julia-…

Bought some Easter candy for the family & enjoyed thinking about a favorite NYC memory: the time when I watched a crying woman in a skirt suit emerge from a Duane Reade and eat a 6 pack of Peeps with vitriolic intensity.

when anyone on this site mentions hating a book and says like, DM me, I will always assume they mean the one I wrote, which may sound like a lack of self esteem but is actually extremely egotistical.

After almost 15 years of not having a dedicated workspace, today I pulled this wagon to an office I rented for myself alone. No windows, weird carpet, but mine, and I find myself like Emma Bovary, walking through life elated as I think, “I have an office! I have an office!”

every frame of this, a shiver.

Rereading Roth's The Human Stain for some research and like most other Zuckerman novels I forgot it was a Zuckerman novel. May we all find such useful and reusable frames.

Check out these wonderful Mavis Gallant editions scored from my little library today.