20 Monday May 2019
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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.
22 Monday Apr 2019
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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
22 Friday Mar 2019
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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
21 Thursday Feb 2019
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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
21 Monday Jan 2019
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Reading: Emma Baxter-Wright, The Little Book of Schiaparelli. Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol.
Audio: All the songs from Lerner & Loewe’s My Fair Lady, after seeing the revival at Lincoln Center two weeks ago
Art: It’s all Frida Kahlo all the time right now.
Video: Parfum (Perfume), the new Netflix thriller series
19 Wednesday Dec 2018
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Is it already mid-December?!
Reading: I’m in the middle of Edwidge Danticat’s remarkable novel The Dew Breaker, from a recent Boxwalla “book box.”
Audio: After hearing a recent interview with Dolly Parton on NPR, I’m finally digging deeper into her impressive musical output. Better late than never!
Art: I need to get tickets to the Andy Warhol show at the Whitney.
Video: “The Kindergarten Teacher” with Maggie Gyllenhaal
16 Friday Nov 2018
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Time for a mid-month check-in!
Reading: Just about to finish Kurban Said’s Ali and Nino, from a recent Boxwalla “book box.”
Audio: I’m hooked on Slicing Up Eyeballs’ 1980s playlists on Spotify. The “100 Best of Songs of 1980” may be my favorite one.
Art: Jewelry: The Body Transformed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
17 Wednesday Oct 2018
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Reading: Catching up on my New Yorkers, and just starting Ali and Nino by Kurban Said.
Audio: The soundtrack from “A Star is Born” (with Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper) on Spotify. No shame.
Art: “It’s Alive! Frankenstein at 200“ at the Morgan Library
Video: Inspired by the above, planning to re-watch Ken Russell’s Gothic (1986)
Eats & Treats: Everything pumpkin spice!!!! Yes, I’m kidding. I’m not really a fan.
20 Thursday Sep 2018
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Reading: Megan Abbott, Give Me Your Hand
Audio: Reviving my early love for The Police
Art: Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power at the Brooklyn Museum
Video: The documentary film “Basquiat: Rage to Riches”
