IT’S OK TO LEAVE THE ROOM NOW
Two hours at least
extra
most days since
Trump is gone.
No can’t miss a minute
compulsion
to see all the news shows and
every talking furrowed face
every single
night anymore.
The morning paper and online
breaking news and
sometimes Judy Woodruff
get me through.
More time now.
New life.
When I was a kid our console TV
had little doors you could close
over the screen.
I stopped in the big Barnes & Noble store close to me on Union Square a couple days ago. It has such well-lit, high-ceiling elbow room, it’s an unusual New York store. I wander around its four floors sometimes. On the third floor there are rows of magazines. Rows and rows. For kids too. You forget how many magazines there are. And how good they look.
Thomas McGuane reads his story from the May 10, 2021, issue of ‘The New Yorker’. McGuane has published more than a dozen books of fiction, including the story collections “Gallatin Canyon,” “Crow Fair,” and “Cloudbursts: Collected and New Stories,” which came out in 2018.
https://apple.news/AK2gXaSR6T4eXMMpycNPWxg
An obituary in the Times. I knew of Grove Press and ‘Evergreen Review’. You may have too. Even if you didn’t, an interesting guy’s life, Fred Jordan.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/02/books/fred-jordan-dead.html?referringSource=articleShare
