Essays
- These Precious Days - Ann Patchett
History/Politics
- U.S.
- New England Nation - Bruce C. Daniels
- Understanding Power - Noam Chomsky
- The Game - George Howe Colt
- Unspeakable - Chris Hedges
- American Nations - Colin Woodard
- When the Old Left Was Young - Robert Cohen
- The Flowering of New England - Van Wyck Brooks
- A Historical Atlas of New York City - Eric Homberger
- The World of Washington Irving - Van Wyck Brooks
- Prophetic City - Stephen L. Klineberg
- The Franco-Americans of Lewiston-Auburn - Mary Rice-Defosse
- Black
- The Children - David Halberstam
dec 11 2021 ∞ dec 11 2021 +
- 990s
- England
- The Evening and the Morning by Ken Follett
- Canada/Vinland
- The Ice-Shirt by William T. Vollmann
- 1010s
- England
- The Physician by Noah Gordon
- France
- 1340s
- China
- She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan
nov 7 2020 ∞ jan 26 2022 +
- 752: An Invitation to Tea
- 712: Nice White Parents
- 706: A Mess to Be Reckoned With
- 694: Get Back to Where You Once Belonged
- 692: The Show of Delights
- 647: LaDonna
- 646: The Secret of My Death
- 492: Dr. Gilmer and Mr. Hyde
- 360: Switched at Birth
- 107: Trail of Tears
- 61: Fiasco!
aug 9 2020 ∞ nov 16 2021 +
- Aberrant
- Affidavit
- Assay
- Aurora
- Bedstead
- Belletristic
- Bevy
- Bootlace
- Breach
- Brigade
- Collude
- Contralto
- Coolant
- Cosseted
- Debacle
- Fleet
- Foist
- Frippery
- Goose-step
- Incantatory
- Largesse
apr 30 2017 ∞ nov 15 2020 +
MANHATTAN
- Washington Heights
- Fort Tryon Park
- The Cloisters
- Harlem
- Schomburg Center
- Apollo Theater
- Harlem Hospital mural
- Marcus Garvey Park
- Sylvia's
- Make My Cake
- Manna's
- Museum of the City of New York
- Studio Museum
- Cafe Frederick
- Morningside Heights
- Riverside Church
- Tom's Restaurant
aug 8 2016 ∞ aug 8 2021 +
- Scotland (UK)
- Mississippi (USA)
- Norway
- Ireland
- Iceland
- Australia
- New Zealand
jul 12 2015 ∞ feb 8 2020 +
- Palm tree leaves swishing slightly in a warm, tropical breeze
- Stormy night flight through eerie greenish clouds (thanks to the wing lights), which clear, all at once, to reveal the twinkling city skyline.
- The sound of a cello (and the scrape of a bow across strings)
- White objects lit by a purple sunset
- Someone speaking softly, gently, barely above a whisper (possibly reading from a book)
- The sound of an orchestra tuning, heard over the murmuring of a waiting crowd
- Rubbing lotion onto smooth, sun-tanned skin
- A warm breeze making the hem of a flowery sundress flap
- Smoke drifting up from a chimney on a cold winter evening
- Breath turning into mist (in the cold, on...
apr 2 2015 ∞ oct 9 2016 +
- ✔ Take the A Train into Harlem and visit the Schomburg Center plus the places I'm researching.
- ✔ Check out the NY Historical Society's Black Fives exhibition.
- ✔ Go back to Lincoln Center and sit by the fountain.
- ✔ Go back to Kew Gardens and walk in the park.
- ✔ Take a tour of the Tenement Museum.
- Eat Italian food in the Bronx.
- ✔ Go to the New York Public Library's main building on 42nd Street.
- Hang out at Lubin House.
- See an old film at MoMA.
- Visit the old New York Renaissance Ballroom.
- ✔ Browse in The Strand.
- ✔ Go to a stargazing event at the Hayden Planetarium.
- ✔ Attend a Mets, Yankees, or Giants game.
jun 7 2014 ∞ may 3 2020 +
- Go on a long walk with music or an audiobook every day
- Make a scrapbook for each year
- Keep a regularly updated journal
- Send people birthday cards that arrive punctually
- Check out new books from the library every two weeks
- Read newspapers with some measure of consistency
- Maintain a written correspondence with older/retired people in my life
- Have long philosophical conversations with intellectual friends
- Travel, even if it's just locally
- Experiment with new recipes (especially dessert recipes)
mar 29 2014 ∞ mar 29 2014 +
- Asher Durand's Kindred Spirits
- Vincent Van Gogh's Starry Starry Night
- Claude Monet's Waterloo Bridge
- Winslow Homer's After the Hurricane
- James Abbott McNeill Whistler's Nocturne in Black and Gold - The Falling Rocket
- Thomas Cole's Mount Etna
- Mary Grandpre's Harry Potter illustrations
- Rembrandt's Rest on the Flight into Egypt
- Oskar Kokoschka's Prague
- Claude Monet's Tramonto a Pourville
- Chris Van Allsburg's illustrations for Swan Lake
- Claude Monet's Sunlight Effect under the Poplars
- Karl Blechen's Sunset at Sea
- Hendrik Willem Mesdag's Sunset at Scheveningen
- Henri Edmond Cross's Coast Near Antibes
- Gustave Caillbotte's A Balcony in Paris
- Josef Thoma's Mondacht an der Mosel
- Sarah Paxton Ball Dodson's The Morning Stars
- John Everett Millais's The Vale of Rest
jan 6 2012 ∞ feb 28 2015 +
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- Citizen Kane (1941)
- The Godfather (1972)
- Casablanca (1942)
- Raging Bull (1980)
- Singin' in the Rain (1952)
- Gone with the Wind (1939)
- Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
- Schindler's List (1993)
- Vertigo (1958)
- The Wizard of Oz (1939)
- City Lights (1931)
- The Searchers (1956)
- Star Wars (1977)
- Psycho (1960)
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
- Sunset Blvd. (1950)
- The Graduate (1967)
- The General (1927)
- On the Waterfront (1954)
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
- Chinatown (1974)
jan 19 2012 ∞ jan 14 2022 +
- Wolfwalkers (2020)
- 1917 (2020)
- Pretend It's a City (2021)
- Summer of Soul (2021)
- The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020)
- Judas and the Black Messiah (2021)
- The Last Duel (2021)
- I Am Greta (2020)
- Mulan (2020)
jun 23 2020 ∞ dec 31 2021 +
New to Him
- ✔ The Secret Garden
- Loving Vincent
- ✔ Hornblower series
- ✔ Incendies
- Frequency
- Spellbound
- The Untouchables
- Persepolis
- ✔ Dances with Wolves
- Suspicion
- Music Box
- Lawrence of Arabia
- ✔ Ben-Hur
- A League of Their Own
- The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe
- Anne of Green Gables
- Pride and Prejudice
- Emma
- My Best Friend's Wedding
- Big Night
may 4 2020 ∞ may 8 2022 +
- chiwetel ejiofor
- nate parker
- matthias schoenaerts
- oscar isaac
- sendhil ramamurthy
- max irons
- santiago cabrera
- sam reid
- richard madden
- hugh dancy
- ioan gruffudd
- rufus sewell
- richard armitage
- demián bichir
- eric bana
- nathan owens
- michael fassbender
- chris pine
- jesse williams
- michael ealy
- laz alonso
aug 4 2016 ∞ aug 8 2021 +
- Raven Used Books (Northampton, MA)
- Harvard Book Store (Cambridge, MA)
- Brookline Booksmith (Brookline, MA)
- Community Book Store (Brooklyn, NY)
- Strand Book Store (New York, NY)
- Greenlight Bookstore (Brooklyn, NY)
- Bluestockings (New York, NY)
- BookCourt (Brooklyn, NY)
- Simon's Winthrop Bookstore (Winthrop, MA)
- Politics & Prose (Washington, D.C.)
- Shakespeare & Co. (Paris, France)
- Prairie Lights (Iowa City, IA)
- The Haunted Bookshop (Iowa City, IA)
- Powell's City of Books (Portland, OR)
- Bruised Apple Books (Peekskill, NY)
- Split Rock Books (Cold Spring, NY)
- Print (Portland, ME)
- Binnacle Books (Beacon, NY)
aug 4 2016 ∞ jan 14 2022 +
- The New World
- The Piano
- Daughters of the Dust
- Forever
- Nostalgia for the Light
- Days of Heaven
- In My Father's Den
- Girl with a Pearl Earring
- Bright Star
- Romeo + Juliet
- The Secret Garden
- Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
- If Beale Street Could Talk
- Howl's Moving Castle
- Romeo + Juliet
- Marie Antoinette
- Loving Vincent
- I Am Not Your Negro
- The Indian in the Cupboard
apr 16 2016 ∞ may 15 2021 +
- Sufjan Stevens / Paul Simon
- Olivia Thirlby / Rachel McAdams
- Oliver Jackson-Cohen / Jake Gyllenhaal
- Natalie Portman / Ashley Judd
- Maggie Grace / Elisha Cuthbert
- Leelee Sobieski / Helen Hunt
- Kit Harington / Orlando Bloom
- Edward Norton / Gary Oldman / Aiden Gillen
- Lena Headey / Keira Knightley
- Jonathan Jackson / Jesse Spencer
- Jason Dohring / Dana Carvey
- Emma Watson / Kiernan Shipka
nov 7 2015 ∞ nov 16 2015 +
- 1989 - Glory
- 1990 - Dances with Wolves
- 1991 - Beauty and the Beast
- 1992 - Malcolm X
- 1993 - Searching for Bobby Fischer
- 1994 - The Shawshank Redemption
- 1995 - Before Sunrise
- 1996 - When We Were Kings
- 1997 - Gattaca
- 1998 - Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned
- 1999 - Liberty Heights
- 2000 - Yi Yi
- 2001 - Mostly Martha
- 2002 - Bus 174
- 2003 - Girl with a Pearl Earring
- 2004 - The Motorcycle Diaries
- 2005 - Batman Begins
- 2006 - The Lives of Others
- 2007 - Gone Baby Gone
- 2008 - Happy-Go-Lucky
dec 27 2012 ∞ jan 7 2022 +
- Tangerine
- Aqua
- Red
- Lime Green
- Olive Green
- Sandy Brown
- Magenta
- Light Blue
- Teal
- Black
dec 6 2012 ∞ dec 17 2018 +
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- apple crisp
- apple pie
- bagel and cream cheese
- banana bread
- banana pudding
- beef or chicken dumplings, fried or steamed
- boston cream doughnuts
- cannoli
- caprese salad
- chicken and waffles
- chocolate chip cookies
- cinnamon rolls
- cornbread
- dirt cake
- egg salad sandwich
- falafel
- farfalle
- fettuccine
- fusilli
- garlic knots
mar 15 2022 ∞ mar 15 2022 +
The Story of the Jews, Vol. I
- fluvial
- ringlets
- lion-colored
- clincher
- high-domed
- pith-helmeted
- quibblers
- wellspring
- swirling
- alluvium
- ziggurats
- nibbled
- fulminating
- embryonic
- free-standing
- crescent
- arrears
- balsam
- unguents
- restive
nov 15 2020 ∞ jan 22 2022 +
nov 5 2020 ∞ nov 5 2020 +
jan 18 2018 ∞ may 23 2020 +
may 5 2017 ∞ may 23 2020 +
- Early Childhood
- Late Childhood
- Early Teens
- Late Teens
- Early Twenties
- Late Twenties
oct 29 2016 ∞ jan 28 2017 +
- Film Forum (New York, NY)
- IFC Center (New York, NY)
- Lincoln Center (New York, NY)
- MoMA (New York, NY)
- Railroad Sq. Cinema (Waterville, ME)
- Metrograph (New York, NY)
- BAM Rose Cinemas (Brooklyn, NY)
- Amherst Cinema (Amherst, MA)
- Coolidge Corner Theatre (Brookline, MA)
- FilmScene (Iowa City, IA)
aug 5 2016 ∞ feb 8 2020 +
aug 4 2016 ∞ oct 13 2016 +
- Sweet Honey in the Rock ✮ ✮ ✮
- Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals ✮ ✮
- Richie Havens (x2) ✮ ✮ ✮
- Carsie Blanton ✮ ✮
- Loudon Wainwright, III ✮ ✮
- Randy Newman ✮ ✮
- Jamie Cullum ✮ ✮ ✮
- Gregory Alan Isakov (x2) ✮ ✮ ✮ ✮
- Punch Brothers with Sarah Jarosz ✮ ✮ ✮ ✮
- Dan Mills ✮ ✮
- Mipso ✮ ✮
- Ana Egge ✮ ✮
- The Stray Birds ✮ ✮
- The Paper Kites ✮ ✮
- Itzhak Perlman ✮ ✮ ✮
- Mandolin Orange (x2) ✮ ✮ ✮ ✮
- Paul Simon ✮ ✮ ✮
- Corinne Bailey Rae ✮ ✮ ✮
- The Weepies ✮ ✮ ✮
sep 12 2015 ∞ jun 6 2017 +
- Senegal : Lac Rose in Greater Dakar
- Jamaica : Floyd's Pelican Bar in St. Elizabeth
- Jordan : The Petra Great Temple
- Italy :
- Tuscany
- Verona
- Rome
- The Spanish Steps
- Trevi Fountain
- La Scala Opera House in Milan
- Singapore : Infinity Pool
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines : Tobago Cays
- Spain : Benidorm
- The Philippines : Villa Escudero
- Portugal : Sol e Pesca in Lisbon
- Thailand : The Archipelago Cinema
- Vietnam : Bacson Valley
may 21 2015 ∞ may 8 2021 +
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