Lately when my partner and I plan “someday” trips, we head south. Joh wants to return to Memphis, her mom’s birthplace. She hasn’t been since she was a kid. I want to check out zydeco music in and near New Orleans. Someday plans heighten the best days and help us breathe when things are slipping. We were daydreaming again the other day. I proposed adding Como, Mississippi to the current itinerary. Como lies between Memphis and New Orleans, and it’s home to the RL Boyce picnic.
Weekend Bites: Eve Babitz Remembered, bell hooks’s legacy, Craig Rodgers’s Fiction, and More
In our weekend reading: remembrances of Eve Babitz and bell hooks, revisiting a classic from Laurie Anderson, and more.
Afternoon Bites: “Kink” Reviewed, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Jay Caspian Kang Nonfiction, Michael Hurley, and More
In our afternoon reading: thoughts on the anthology “Kink,” an interview with Jacob Guanzon, and more.