Thrilled. Not as thrilled as William is with his stick, but pretty close.
Do you know how you know when your epic, year-long, blog-destroying novel revision is finished? When your agent e-mails you and says, “nice work.” Just like that. I feel like William looks. It’s so nice to be finished with something like that.
So now, it’s back to: books, food, and why a stick is more exciting than anything you could possibly imagine.
Books: Robert Caro. The Passage of Power. The fourth in this big-ass biography of Lyndon Johnson. Whatever Johnson was (and he was a lot of things — talented, flawed, tragic) he was huge. He was also 6’4″.
Janet Flanner’s Letters from Paris: Her New Yorker columns from the late 1940s after the war until the early 1960s. Wonderful evocations of daily life in Paris as the city and the country picked up after the war.
And now, I’m off to see how everyone is doing.
xo
