I’ve been reading Joan Didion, or to be more accurate, rereading Joan Didion these last few nights, the book being her collection of essays Slouching Towards Bethlehem which is one of my all-time favorite collections of essays by an American writer, and I thought I might post an excerpt from one of her pieces but I’ll be damned if I could pick one excerpt because I just keep wanting to post the whole book. It is better than I remember and I remember it quite fondly, having read it now for the fourth time over these long decades since I first stumbled upon Play It As It Lays back in the early 1970s. One of the profs in the MFA program had it in a course he called First Novels but the books were not first novels (Ismael Reed’s Mumbo Jumbo and Tom McGuane’s 92 In The Shade as other…
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Leonard Durso 
Looking forward to excerpts/tidbits. Limited attention creatures that we’ve become, a tiny morsel-or two-just might be what we need to feed that hunger. Thank you🌹
You’re most welcome. Sometimes snacks are enough but I do prefer a full course meal myself.
Satiety isn’t such a bad thing, particularly for delectable fare 🙂
Right you are. Bring on the meal.
I’ve been rereading The Book of Common Prayer!
Another good one.
I think the booksellers must be paying you to hook me on these books – another one I’ll be looking up. Thanks for the intro.
Glad you like her. And as for my commission, I get a free bookmark with every title sold.
I’ll be sure to send you one…
I’d appreciate different colors.