113. READ.LOOK.THINK.

READ: Nico Muhly: Thoughts on being well. | “My window was a cottage window so it wasn’t high enough to be a suicide window…” Jenny Diski on leaving Doris Lessing’s house. | “Little of her work from this time has survived, owing to her habit of destroying anything that failed to match up to the exacting vision of her maturity. This is why it sometimes seems as if Martin sprang into existence fully formed, absolute in her commitment to geometric abstraction.” Profile of Agnes Martin. | Los Angeles plays itself. | The Language of the Brag by Sharon Olds. | Helen Garner (genius) on the insults of age.

LOOK: The Five O’Clock Apron: Proper Food for Modern Families. I bought this to read on Kindle but it’s so good I wish I’d bought the paper copy. | The Gannet Address Book: Paris. (Fifty of the city’s most exciting restaurants and food shops.) | Superfood tapenade. | Pistachio pavlova with strawberry rhubarb cream (I can’t wait for my new oven to be installed so pavlova can be back on the menu). Although what if I discover the problem with my pavlova was never my oven, but – chillingly – me? | The seven minute egg. |

THINK: “We have so many people using their energy now to attack how other people use their energy. This is the new nullity.” | “…three dimensions of food we normally consider are quantity, quality, and type. So, for a month, or however long is tolerable, you eat in the fourth dimension, which is time. You read no nutrition labels, and you “detox” from thinking about food. Instead you think about the time you spend preparing food.”