Waiting for the train.

 

Author Robert Caro on His Writing Process and Biographies of LBJ and Robert Moses (This was on C-SPAN last night. Wonderful.) He’s 90.

Robert Caro, who was working on the final book of his five-volume biography of President Lyndon Johnson, offered a tour of his New York City office and home library.

https://www.c-span.org/program/qa/author-robert-caro-on-his-writing-process-and-biographies-of-lbj-and-robert-moses/678198

 A recent New Yorker. On my table/desk. 

 Madonna, I think, on a restaurant I walk by every morning on Irving Place.

On the subway on my way back yesterday from holding my reading sign. (The train is near-empty because sometimes people hop on the express train across the platform. Sometimes there are people standing in the aisles on this train.)

Joni Mitchell—Both Sides Now (Live at The Isle of Wight Festival 1970)

 https://youtu.be/YgtLZCe-GSM?si=FpkWCyyb9pSxk8dx

 

A solo woman baker runs a hidden gem bakery in Osaka 

https://youtu.be/uqjUFhJVpFQ?si=_Yt4bty5yfBl-bzg

 

 

Jack Antonoff on Why This Beatles Track is the ‘Greatest Recording Ever Made’

https://youtu.be/SEeAbMxYW44?si=DTpr_A1dWeSxLDQZ

 

GABBY THOMAS dominates 100m and 200m a few days ago. 

https://youtu.be/Gd9LjVJ6AB8?si=VmhYbJZ2WuzhV3Zs

 

“Check out the Brooklyn Public Library's list of 250 most notable books in U.S. history

The handpicked list includes iconic books that reflect the American experience

https://apple.news/AhpLuGGSbT9OFQEWJyM7gqg

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“OTIS REDDING CENTER FOR THE ARTS CELEBRATES ONE-YEAR ANNIVERSARY: ENSURING THE 'LEGACY KEEPS REACHING FORWARD'

Zelma Redding talks about her late husband’s belief in giving back — and lifting up.

https://apple.news/Af61iKv1TT1CDxB2nNp8h4g

 


Bob Dylan will come to you


And you don't have to be rich or live in a big city to see him.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/04/23/bob-dylan-keeps-touring-playing-age-85/

Amy Goodman’s journalism is more urgent now than ever

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/amy-goodman-s-journalism-is-more-urgent-now-than-ever/ar-AA21sDac?ocid=socialshare

Gloria Steinem Invited Me Over to Her Brownstone for a Group Discussion on Sexual Desire. This Is How It Went.

“Off the record!” one woman shouts in my direction after detailing a sexy secret

https://apple.news/ALYQw3yAuQ8a1JMlwDva0ug

 

Michael Jordan Speaks at a celebration of life for Kobe and Gianna Bryant

https://youtu.be/R5Ue3B_Eu94?si=6N5Mtu8mk08LkwHc8

 

Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World | Official Trailer | American Masters | PBS

https://youtu.be/B7bfYkgotBM?si=oodEqS3lqLMkki2e

My desk.  

 

The photographer behind ‘Nashville Skyline’

https://youtu.be/rJTekUl5wLo?si=hi5T5LGok-8WgHE7

David Remnick in ‘The New Yorker’. On Trump and his policies.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/04/20/donald-trumps-strategic-failure-and-moral-calamity-in-iran

 

The Mississippi Miracle in Reading

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/10/podcasts/the-daily/mississippi-schools-test-scores.html?context=audio&smid=nytcore-ios-share

 On second avenue, East Village, yesterday.

Interview with Josh Shapiro, today.

https://youtu.be/rvn4BQfJ2w0?si=p8MqhZ_39Pvt7_p_

 

A film: James Nachtwey: War Photographer (2001)

https://youtu.be/FUiohIC1dYU?si=GshXL0rUNFGrzke2

Saw this in the checkout line at the grocery store this morning. 

 

“FRAN LEBOWITZ

Last year, we asked Fran Lebowitz to weigh in on the concept of now. But that was then, and this is … a newer and (even) more fraught moment. So we asked for her appraisal on the current state of affairs: what’s changed, what hasn’t, and why revenge is best served when it doesn’t destroy the foundations of Western democracy.”.

https://apple.news/ArFlOIEJjS2KpZ65BSW9lYA

 

A Conversation about Photography—Joel Meyerowitz

https://youtu.be/V6xbdTMLYwc?si=qvSrBSCSTXh-Bnr4

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The women that defined street photography.

https://youtu.be/PAT-x1YpcDA?si=aDdjn9rMgG_g_EVP

 

Celine Dion singing at the Olympics.

https://youtu.be/smKqMiGXxl4?si=wvgBvOyINCtoCpDY

I’ve spent a decade fighting Trump. Here are six lessons I’ve learned

        -Saul Austerlitz

 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/29/trump-grassroots-organizing?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

 

Nine Black College Students Were Arrested in 1961 for Reading at a Segregated Public Library. Their Contributions to the Civil Rights Movement Have Long Been Overlooked

Known as the Tougaloo Nine, the demonstrators staged a sit-in that helped the NAACP push for the desegregation of public spaces in Mississippi's capital”

https://apple.news/AdtM9wcPYSsemcLOpypmTkw

 ‘We Are the World’  https://youtu.be/zFStPLemFlc?si=oElRxtb2n9H366zR

 

 

Tonight watching a YouTube video on a photographer I took a photo with my iPhone of what was right in front of me. 

 James Baldwin.

 

 

Neil Diamond and Neil Sedaka. Wow.

https://youtu.be/TlnW2B9YO_A?si=M5rfgm3FDSjA0PAx

 On the subway back from holding the sign this morning.

 Newest ‘cityReader’.  #71. More than a year since #70. A daughter had a stroke. 

 Last night on Union Square.

Toni Morrison on language, evil, and ‘the white gaze’

https://youtu.be/FAs3E1AgNeM?si=0BiBQMo55ULm4mRA

Annie Leibovitz shares moments behind photographing some of the world’s most influential women

https://youtu.be/vkeGh7skl_Q?si=zdGrpQlAtB5u4Ib6

 

Bill McKibben on Trump’s Climate Rollbacks: ‘This is Economic Self-Sabotage’

https://youtu.be/HZdKKD0oLrs?si=GopMIzbWuvRv6quC

 

The Truth About Trump’s State of the Union   |   Sen. Bernie Sanders

https://youtu.be/W2qpYkLZxeY?si=poiEv-XamZ0bS4Zf