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A red sun
One thing that I've missed since the beginning of the pandemic is my sense of morning routine. It's a small thing, I know; I've learned over the last 18 months just how adaptable I really am. Things I felt were essential to my happiness
Writing all over the place
Three or so years ago I decided to start keeping a journal. I fill around ten or twelve notebooks each year; fewer, I've noticed, since the pandemic began. Each one is numbered and put away when I finish. The last one was #35. About two years ago, I
Quotation marks
There's something wonderful about a story that dispenses with quotation marks. As I mentioned before, I've just finished In the Quick [https://amzn.to/3sf5N7I] , by Kate Hope Day. Not a quotation mark to be found in Day's novel. Cormac McCarthy's The
Little novels
I've just finished reading In the Quick [https://amzn.to/3fYG8ez], by Kate Hope Day. It's a slim novel, with fifty-three chapters, many of them quite short. Some of my favorite novels over the last two years have been "little" books. Jenny Offill'