Good in-flight choice before a writing residency….

"And after all," he writes, "your pigs are far more intelligent than the other animals, therefore the best qualified to run the farm."

The most chilling part of T.S. Eliot's rejection of Orwell's Animal Farm come near the end, after he's said the allegory "is not the right point of view from which to criticize the political situation," but that if some other publisher "believes in what it stands for," good for them...

Toni Morrison: "I do know that I don’t like it here if I don’t have something to write."

Interviewer: "Here, meaning where?"

Morrison: "Meaning out in the world."

Little hope in this world right now but someone left hand-printed valentines in a tiny envelope at the bike crosswalk in Tempe, Arizona.

That's it. We are clearly living in someone else's novel.

I'll be in Ann Arbor in a little more than a week, in conversation with one of my favorite essayists, Aisha Sabatini Sloan, on March 5, on campus.

Then at Literati Bookstore the next day, details here: literatibookstore.com/event/sarah-...

Would love to see you at one or both events.