Old Westbury Gardens, Smoggy Afternoon, by the author.
The biggest book I own is the Norton Shakespeare, Second Edition. It’s all the plays, annotated: 3,600 pages. Lately I’ve used it to prop up my computer, to enable a more flattering angle on Zoom calls.
In the fall of 2020, I was meeting every week on Zoom with a class taught by the writer Anne Carson and her husband Robert Currie. Anne announced one week that she had quit writing. From now on, she was only going to draw. When you get to be my age . . .
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