You can just stay inside so long. I haven’t had a TV in decades. The public library has a branch two blocks away. I go there. It has everything you’d want. People to stare at, and books.

I just bought this. I wouldn’t have bought it before the election results. 

I just now finished my second Transcendental Meditation of the day. I’ve been doing it for 45+ years. I don’t miss the twice a day habit. 20 minutes each time. You’ve all heard of it. If I could suggest anything to you it’s that. Look into it. I learned it in Lakewood, Ohio. No matter where you live, you can learn it. The instructors all learned in Fairfield, Iowa. 

Front cover, and back cover (an ad), of the new New Yorker. 

 It opened today. I went. 3 hours. Go.

I don’t have a TV. I can’t remember when I had one. This iPad is my screen. 

I just got this book a few hours ago. Everyone has heard of Mary Oliver. I read maybe 10 poems. They’ve already got me seeing things differently. 

The Student Journalists Who Never Let the Cornell Assault Case Go

The student newspaper, The Cornell Daily Sun, covered the allegations of rape at a fraternity house since they were first made in 2024 and led the reporting on the case.

 https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/nyregion/cornell-daily-sun-newspaper-rape.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

A photo I took of the basement bar at the Irish Center in Long Island City. There was a great documentary of Gerry Adams later upstairs. See it if you can. It’ll soon be on Kanopy the woman who made it said. 

That’s a non-alcoholic Guinness. My friend from Cleveland no longer drinks alcohol either. We had two with our perfect sandwiches. Old Town on 18th Street, a walk from my apartment, is a perfect place. 

  

At the breakfast place I frequent. 

By the front desk at my local library branch. Hard to find a seat most days. 

The woman behind the counter at Three Lives when I asked her how this book is selling, just shook her head. 

I’m not really a reader of fiction anymore. Something made me get this though. I just started it. It’s everything I wanted in a book. 

 

 

Gov. Josh Shapiro speaks:

https://youtu.be/0r_U0uw4VIY?is=k69lEkvcIQd9El1F

The great-to-me John Stewart sings ‘Dreamers on the Rise’. Kennedy brothers. 

https://youtu.be/0oMdzPofLzc?is=N6iQ_IdMQ_1ZQF2G

 Cherry pie this morning at Joe Jr. 

 

The promising race to get kids reading again

The next generation of middle-grade books doesn't look like Harry Potter. Good.

https://apple.news/AUJGtEKdrTpqxZv97xDPEqg

 Whoa.

The EZRA KLEIN SHOW

The A.I.s Are Already Out of Control

https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000011091562/the-ais-are-already-out-of-control.html?smid=url-share

 

Jill Lepore: US: We’re in Free Fall

https://youtu.be/LBpPNvVLVmc?is=MB506Sj2vjr_1a1T

 

Just bought these two books at my favorite bookstore, Three Lives. 

Bernie Sanders Takes on Data Centers/ The New Yorker Radio Hour

https://youtu.be/c7jLvtmqW1I?is=90hYhmK619NOHr_3

 

Malcolm Gladwell ran by me and my sign this morning. He looked out of the corner of his eye as he went by. Most runners don’t look at all. 

 

Two riders reading books this morning on the train back from me holding the sign. 

What comes after the end of Reading?

https://youtu.be/uUIw704kvG8?is=OznA5mUC6VIs6LPC

 

I watched ‘A Complete Unknown’ again last night. Do, if you haven’t. Here is a documentary on the film.

https://youtu.be/4EZgOS34UoU?is=lraompONmaq5HmpU

Train across the platform. I take it sometimes after I hold the sign. It’s usually not that crowded. My sign gets in the way though. I take a slower local train home. No hurry. 

From where I was sitting in my neighborhood library, yesterday, two blocks away.

 

https://youtu.be/diXSvr69yfk?is=dOYGvMxK2GqT-92g

The late John Stewart on the Smothers Brothers a long time ago. Sings a song, with others, that very much matters now.

I eat quite a lot of plain yogurt. This is my new favorite. It has a fresh tastiness.

 

CARLY SIMON REVEALS PARKINSON’S DISEASE DIAGNOSIS: ‘I AM STILL VERY MUCH HERE’

https://www.billboard.com/music/pop/carly-simon-parkinsons-disease-diagnosis-skin-cancer-1236303188/

On my exercise walk I pass the Quaker Meeting House. 

I’ve only read 50 pages. I just got started. There are 400-some pages. So far it’s very good. Better than you’d think. Get it. 

 

IS THE AGE OF READING OVER?

Rose Horowitch on her cover story and what happens when a society becomes “postliterate”

https://apple.news/A2pH7di6iRgGspR2nOoPpNA

 Aging. My 79-year-old hand the other day.

Nikole Hannah-Jones Talks About Her Mission to Put Challenged Books Directly Into the Hands of Children in Iowa

https://apple.news/AZOMJQR0gQz6aTktt2f5CNQ

 

 He’s good. NYT.

 Too Many Books.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09/style/too-many-books-new-york-city-apartment-scholar-landlord.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

I decided this week that this was probably the best book I ever read. 

K