Happy Mother's Day

happy birthday

Thomas Pynchon turns 89 today.

61.8

America's Civilian labor force participation rate continues to slide. In the twenty-first century, these 2026 lows have only been matched by the early COVID-19 years of 2020 and 2021.

What will my sister think?

"That brings me to another question that memoir writers often ask: What about the privacy of the people I write about? Should I leave out things that might hurt or offend my relatives? What will my sister think?

"Don't worry about that problem in advance."

~~ from On Writing Well by William Zinsser

Auggie's Revenge is the book for you.

from periodicals

In April, I listened to Louis Menand's "A Lesson of Vietnam: Getting in Is Easier than Getting Out" from The New Yorker, and I read "Blood in the Game" by Francine Prose—a review of novels by Lee Clay Johnson's Bloodline and Carl Hiaasen's Fever Beach. I also enjoyed a few shorter pieces from recent print issues of The Christian Science Monitor.