92. READ.LOOK.THINK.

READ: “There was the author, Chad Harbach, who had spent a decade on a novel his friends thought he’d never finish…” I love The Art of Fielding; Vanity Fair has made available Keith Gessen’s fascinating Making Of article. | Sheila Heti interiews people about their “Twitter philosophies” at The Believer. | Brilliant profiles: of Edward St. Aubyn / of the poet Patricia Lockwood. | How not to review women’s writing. | Remember this: Is the LRB the best magazine in the world? I found the brilliant Love, Nina at Oxfam: it’s a book of letters Mary-Kay Wilmers’ nanny wrote home. | Miranda July: TV | Browsing through The Atlantic’s By Heart archive.

LOOK: Savory granola. | How to have a better lunch at your desk. | Beautiful new Japanese cafe in Dalston | Camille Bidault-Waddington on Instagram | Alphabet Journal Issue A is out; what an achievement by Luisa Brimble. A photo I took of Jude’s multigrain french toast is on the back cover. He always tries to the extend the bread for a day after I would have thrown it out. | Hannah invited me to do a Proust Questionnaire for the Benah blog, a narcissist’s dream come true. | A mix in 12 parts: Philip Glass mix. | Summer.

THINK: Consumed every podcast in iTunes with Andrew Solomon on it. How the worst moments in our lives make us who we are. | The Australian Bad Play. (Interesting on our conflict aversion, as a people.)