Loved Plague of Doves; it has the most astonishing opening. Most recent and most propulsive: I Heard Her Call My Name by Lucy Sante, Caste by Isabel Wilkerson, The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead, Sing Her Down by Ivy Pochoda.

@robspillman.bsky.social Love this line from Lee McCarthy to Kim Young: "Revision is as much of an act of grace as the first draft."

@maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social I read a poem in which the poet called that mysterious unlived life, which haunted her (him?), a "sister life." I loved that phrase and have tried to find that poem again for decades.

Thank you, Hannah! I see Strip everywhere. Happy for you.

- last book you read: Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
- your current read: Stream System by Gerald Murnane
- last book added to your TBR: On James Baldwin by Colm Tóibín