IMPERSONAL INTERVIEWS: Benjamin Schmitt, author of Satan’s School for Girls and Other Works.
an excellent interview with Benjamin Schmitt, touching on a lot of important ideas
Tag: parenting
So Much Blue by Percival Everett
if every novel was this good no one would ever need to be unhappy
2026 hopes/dreams/plans
looking ahead (and that’s fine to do one week in)
2025 in the Rear View
accidentally had a successful year (by my own metrics, which are probably not yours)
Notes To John by Joan Didion
a rallying hypocritical cry or is Notes To John an unethical publication in this form only???
Playing for Time by Arthur Miller
some life updates, some political commentary and a reflection on an unsubtle Arthur Miller play…
Trouble With Lichen by John Wyndham
the trouble with trouble with lichen is that it’s best read half-asleep and mostly i read awake
Gnomon by Nick Harkaway
a giant book that offers a giant good time
The Towers of Toron by Samuel R. Delany (The Fall Of The Towers #2)
careening towards dystopias; long blog on a book, a baby and a uk election
Don’t Panic by George Lewis
valuable and open-hearted – if gently laddish – book on parenting for non-birthing people
The End (My Struggle Book Six) by Karl Ove Knausgaard
endings are never easy
Triumph Of The Now 