I had a musical Easter weekend. We watched Wayne’s World for pizza night on Friday, my band practiced for 4 hours on Saturday, and I spent most of Sunday afternoon making a new mixtape: April is often a melancholy month for me. Last April I made an “April Showers” mix that I described as a […]

I have been struggling with what Jonathan Lethem calls “The Gulp” in The Ecstasy of Influence: “For me, there’s a weird, unfathomable gulf—I almost wrote gulp—between the completion of a novel and its publication. Some days this duration feels interminable, as though the book has voyaged out like some spacecraft on a research mission, populated […]

I asked the great Tim Kreider ten questions about writing, not writing, great writers who are funny, and more. Here are his replies.

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Easter in East Austin, 2013. The sign reads: “Don’t make your own easter eggs — ain’t nobody got time for that!” Today’s newsletter is about the other kind of easter eggs: It turns out our tweens aren’t too old for an egg hunt, so we got out the plastic easter eggs for at least one […]