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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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

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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.

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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”

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Reading: Marta McDowell, The World of Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Frontier Landscapes that Inspired the Little House Books (a gift from Mr. Professor; highly recommended!)

Audio: Went to see my longtime musical love Lloyd Cole at City Winery; now I’m playing and replaying lots of his albums in the aftermath

Art: A recent visit to the Whitney

Video: “McQueen,” the documentary film about designer Alexander McQueen

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Reading: My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh

Audio: U2, Songs of Experience

Video: New episodes of “Endeavour” on PBS

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