I’m a registered Democrat so I can’t vote in the Republican Primaries.

While watching the Republican debates last night… I heard a candidate mention reading and remediation last night during the education question time — my ears perked up.

This week, I discovered there will be a season 2 of The Queen’s Gambit, and I immediately sent a text to my dad! We both have watched & rewatched this show. I think I will invite him over for a watch party!

✨#home

“Zadie Smith, plunked glamorously into the pages of British Vogue to discuss her forthcoming novel, “The Fraud.” She is photographed by Tyler Mitchell, the 28-year-old who skyrocketed to fame after becoming the first Black photographer to shoot a cover of Vogue, of Beyoncé, in 2018. Smith, 47, is dressed in the splendor of some of the most compelling and frisky designer brands, like a sculptural gold Alexander McQueen necklace, and an enormous froth of Alaia, the storied sexy-cerebral French brand overseen by Pieter Mulier, with a pair of Tabi boots by Maison Margiela, which are to the art world what Allbirds are to tech: a delightfully hideous uniform of belonging. Smith gives the camera a confident, knowing gaze, as if to say: This glamour stuff, it’s pretty fun.” #fashion #books ✨🙌🏼 https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/fashion/2023/08/21/zadie-smith-vogue/

#booktalk I’m always so grateful when out of town events still offer virtual options. “Award-winning author Helen Garner makes a rare US appearance upon the reissue of two of her masterworks — The Children’s Bach and The House of Grief — in conversation with The New Yorker’s Merve Emre. “Helen Garner has written two of the greatest novels of the twentieth-century, Monkey Grip and The Children’s Bach,” Emre writes. “In both her fiction and non-fiction, her writing is startling and startlingly precise, intelligent, and unafraid to look directly at the darkness that hides in the world and in all of us.” Long considered one of the greatest novelists Australia has ever produced — and an important influence on a generation of American writers like Lauren Groff, Ben Lerner, Rumaan Alam, and others — the publication of her early novels in the US is a major event. Hear her and Emre in a candid discussion on her magnificent writing — the arc of a commanding, profoundly moving, and important body of work coming into full focus for the first time. https://www.92ny.org/event/helen-garner

Ok— reading time! Logging off to focus ✨#Bookstr *Desire In Language* by Julia Kristeva #summerjoy ✨

Came for this new exhibit— 🙏 #museum #pittsburgh #climatechange *Unsettling Matter, Gaining Ground*

Eye Bee M poster, 1982/1991 Paul Rand, designer #museum #monday #artstr 💙

I miss these days… but now ➡️ my son, who is in his 20’s, took me & my husband out to dinner to celebrate his new job. #momlife