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Last month the trees outside my window went from fully dressed to bare-assed in what seemed like one instant.
Ive beenrivetedby the fate of the semi-fallen tree.
The tree had shed some cones, which I collected and arranged across my desk.
Sap was crystallized like maple sugar on the tips of each scale.
Did you know that conifers havemalecones andfemalecones?
After googling, I was able toidentifythe fleet on my desk as 100 percent female.
I spent more time chatting with those cones than I did with humans this month.
Great listeners, all of them.
Mostly we talked about books.
When Maxs grandfather sires a baby out of wedlock, things get even darker for this twisted little family.
Bronsky has a Dickensian flair for writing about miserable childrenor, rather, the miseries of childhood.
Dont get crushed by an iceberg, a commissioner helpfully warns.
Upon arriving in Greenland, Kpomassie is met with an excited crowd.
Its the first time the locals have seen a Black man, and they freak out.
The parents are more thrilled than intimidated by the stranger, and almost everyone offers to house him.
The photo insert is brief but electrifying.
Dont get blisters on your feet.
Dont be pretentious, but also dont be dimwitted.
Dont get pregnant.Dont order drinks withmaraschino cherries.
Soon it all goes to hell…
Ask yourself whetherMadeleine Wattsmight become to Australia what Joan Didion is toCALIFORNIA?
Ask yourself What ifDownton Abbeytook place in the American South and was significantly moreEVIL?
and thenanswer that question.
Momentarilyoccupythe consciousness of aSAUDI ARABIAN EMIGRANTliving in Ohio in the 1970s?
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