Glad Espera Oscar de Corti didn’t live to see the EPA gut itself https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/climate/endangerment-finding.html

When you microwave a haggis, its skin becomes a little hat.

Good morning, Brooklyn.

As if current events weren’t disastrous enough . . .

Most recent books I’ve worked on.

A fine opening party at Brooklyn's 400 Gallery for @remotelyjuliet's solo show.

The press LIES: #JoanRivers did NOT grow up in #Brooklyn's #TurnerTowers Apt 107. That column in the 1940 census, in which she's recorded as a 6-year-old 1st grader, is NOT for apartment numbers. It is labeled "number of household in order of visitation" of our address. No wonder it didn't match any apt number (ours is 16C, for example). I will climb BOTH halves of our around-200-unit building to find which was likely to have been the 107th visited by enumerator Thomas Higgins on April 2, 1940.

Going to the Strand tonight for the launch of Stacy Horn's "Killing Fields of East New York." In my first years in publishing, I used to trade new hardcovers and galleys for cash there. But the more books I brought, the less they paid me. Stacy's event: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/stacy-horn-gillian-flynn-the-killing-fields-of-east-new-york-tickets-1138489896929

Scabby butt: unusual rear presentation of #Scabby the union rat; Financial District, NYC #ScabbyTheRat