Sublime

“THINGS TO RETURN TO”—i.e., morning pages, stretching, skateboarding, herbal infusions, Beach Monday, walking, hydrating, reading, quilting, dancing.

“I will bring light.” The natural treasures burned away

In many American cities, strategically charted twentieth-century highways represented “urban renewal” for white-collar commuters but meant, in James Baldwin’s words, “Negro removal” for established Black neighborhoods suddenly isolated from goods and services. To small towns, meanwhile, highways have been what railroads were during the nineteenth c

Django Reinhardt’s Hot Club—that lovely swing guitar—and Bix Beiderbecke.

Deafheaven, whose album Sunbather played on a loop in my headphones for years as I wrote and revised this book.