Reading: Betty Smith’s A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, a favorite of my pre-teen and teen years that I haven’t revisited in a very long time.

Audio: Blondie.

Video: A documentary about Studio 54 on Netflix.

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Fall is here!

Reading: Getting ready to jump into Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments

Audio: Some episodes of the “Dressed” podcast

Video: Finally watching “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”

Art: The World of Anna Sui at the Museum of Arts and Design!

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Reading: Re-reading Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch. Starting Clarice Lispector’s The Besieged City, a Boxwalla selection.

Audio: I’m starting to listen to some fashion history podcasts.

Video: “The Great Hack” on Netflix

Art: Radical Love at the Ford Foundation Gallery

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Time for a mid-month check-in!

Reading: Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

Audio: The cast recording of the new Oklahoma! revival

Video: The new season of Stranger Things

Art: Hudson Rising at the New-York Historical Society

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Reading: Leïla Slimani’s The Perfect Nanny

Audio: The Police (my brother occasionally reminds me to go back and remember how great they were)

Video:  The final episodes of “Game of Thrones,” of course. Valar morghulis.

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Reading: George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo

Audio: Finally getting into St. Vincent, a decade or so after everyone else

Video:  The final season of Game of Thrones

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Reading: Joan Didion’s Slouching Towards Bethlehem

Audio: Lots of 1960s guitar rock lately

Video: Sorry to Bother You

Art: Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future at the Guggenheim

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Reading: The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa

Audio: A nostalgic Bauhaus binge

Video: American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace

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