What I’ve been reading …
Fiction
Book of Tea – Okakura Kakuzō.
Jesus’ Son – Denis Johnson
Lathe of Heaven – Ursula Le Guin.
Old Man and the Sea (again) – Papa
Third-body problem – Liu Cixin
Old School – Tobias Wolff
Non-fiction
The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt by T. J. Stiles
Die Wise – Stephen Jenkinson
The Sabbath by Abraham Joshua Heschel
The Prize by Daniel Yergin
Interesting essays
Deep Adaptation: A Map for Navigating Climate Tragedy
Shoshana Zuboff on Surveillance Capitalism’s Threat to Democracy
An Appalachian Trail: A Project in Regional Planning
“Get Out While You Can” Once notorious for her racist and bigoted tweets, Katie McHugh saw the dark insides of the white nationalist movement.