79. READ.LOOK.THINK.

READ: Acknowledgments. | “If the writing is weak, everything else is bullshit.” Jonathan Franzen | David Sedaris: A big family, at the beach. | I believe this utterly: “We are subject to enough delusions in this life without adding to them the belief that the girl with the name tag is secretly in love with us.” | Lena Dunham: Deliverance. | Jude and I hung out with Laura Jane Faulds and this is what she ate before, during and after. | The trouble with technology is that it eradicates a character’s ability to be lost.

LOOK: The final two pages of the ‘Breaking Bad’ finale screenplay. | Honey and lemon thyme tart on Keke. | A beautiful school. | Whole roasted cauliflower. | Homegrown in Hackney: living off the land in E8, my neighbourhood. | Some baby photos.

THINK: Magic as a technique of the disenfranchised. “It’s something you do when the tools you have available don’t seem like they’re enough.” |”The pendulum has swung from ‘let’s never talk about it and let’s never educate ourselves about it’ to ‘let’s everyone blab about it.’” Social media is redefining depression. | No matter what profession a woman works in, she’s actually in the service profession. | Why do poor people make stupid, illogical decisions to buy status symbols? | “Of course you think what you’ve written is great: You wrote it. But if your work was worth money someone would probably be paying you for it.” |The problem of episodic TV criticism.

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