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Novels, reading novels, writing novels, loving and/or raising humans who read and/or write novels
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Dashing through the...leaves (opens the original)
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I am dashing to the airport — basically over and over again till the end of the year — but a few things just quickly…I am dashing over and over again to the airport because now it is fall which means more! book! tour! Next up, lots of festivals and fundraisers and community reads and library gigs and holiday stuff. Here’s the latest:<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="402.5" src="https://subs
Holy sh*t (opens the original)
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I have been in Hawaii this week. In fact, here is my view as I’m typing this:<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="546.5728021978022" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!t9z1!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fs
Cold Fear (opens the original)
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I got a new fridge this week. The one that came with my house died unceremoniously a few days before winter break last year. It was the opinion of the expert we summoned that fixing it would cost more than a new one and probably wouldn’t take anyway. We couldn’t leave the dog sitter without a refrigerator though, so we went to Lowe’s and bought a small-ish, cheap-ish one and put it in the sort-of mudroom bit of the kitchen. The old one stayed right where it was, and in the nine months since, I h
Take Me Out (opens the original)
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Novels are the best art form, right? I think we can agree without debate that there’s no video game, no tweet, no post, no tiktok, no app that’s as good as a good novel. But there’s also no painting, no photograph, no ballet, no song, no symphony, no album, no playlist, no sculpture, no film, no television show, no poem that’s as good as a good novel either. Are there shitty novels that aren’t as good as, I don’t know, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony? Sure. But a good novel? A good novel is better th
Hot (opens the original)
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When Paul and I started dating1, I was living in Maryland and he was living in Seattle. I finished teaching my summer course and flew out at the beginning of July. Seattle was having a heat wave. Late on the morning I arrived, a radio announcer said, “It’s 80 degrees, and it’s not even noon yet.” This was where my culture shock began.In Baltimore in July, it often doesn’t dip below 80 degrees at any point in any given 24-hour cycle. In Baltimore in July, it is always 80 degrees before noon, ofte
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