Round Room

thank you! me too

all true, but my personal thing about delillo is he's the best writer alive and everyone either knows that or should

it's a card game. if she likes that song she might like this one open.spotify.com/track/7H3iom...

It's also bad for critics in that every book coming out within a certain window is now competing to the one you write about. If there are two titles you really want to go to bat for but they're both published on Sept 16, good luck pitching the other one to the same venue for October or November.

Worst thing to happen to book crit was getting mercilessly synced to pub dates. writer gets 97% of the coverage they're ever getting by the end of week 2, & if the book is widely reviewed (positive or not) in prestige places some of your would-be audience burns out on takes & skips the book itself.

is the Calvino quote from the Six Memos?

the only time i saw someone doing this was in the delta lounge in the minneapolis airport

she's giving me a look as though there were any confusion as to who caught who licking what