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no more emails. if you want to reach me, travel to the underworld and play the lyre for the god of the dead

Omg I love Burbank Airport. It’s totally rundown and ramshackle but I love how it makes me feel I’ve teleported to 1962.

I just received the official first-pass pages of LIFE B, my memoir. I'm not sure I can name all the feelings. But YOU TWEETIES. The title page. Look at this font! https://t.co/Xzg3o1zgrg

Oh god, the lamb stuffed Azeri kutabi at the Village Cafe somewhere deep in Brooklyn. This is how legends get born, people. https://t.co/ajIIr9i1z6

For Halloween i'm dressing up as the Conservative Party.

Parents, please check your kids' candy this Halloween! I just found the plums that were in the icebox

My latest @TheAtlantic: Annie Ernaux’s Nobel win proves that the reign of the short novel—a form that concentrates language and plot expertly—has begun. Here are seven books that can each be read in no more than a weekend or so. https://t.co/NsWaTRocu2

Tomorrow at @Stanford..

You can’t keep genuine quality down. “Jeremy Hunt appointed as Chancellor following Kwasi Kwarteng's sacking” https://t.co/tHeQdTqfmB

My fave Robbie Coltrane memory. This scene in the Comic Strips's brilliant episode, Supergrass. https://t.co/LGb1p6UFlT

Witchy reads to get you ready for Halloween + more of the best bookish lists around the web this week. Thanks to our partners @ForgeReads #ad: https://t.co/GL6QAaPZQ3

Comfort ye, Messiah/Complex returns this holiday season! ❄️ A Classic! https://t.co/2vneISzkJb

Dive into an unsettling New York mystery. https://t.co/aA3idylABX

‘Reconciliation is a clear goal of the commission. The testimony should obviously be included. But what shared narrative – never mind reconciliation – is really possible?’ @rachelbnolan on Colombia’s Truth Commission report: https://t.co/zVy0uv69Dq https://t.co/HtPaHMMKZW

"Nope feels perfectly attuned to the Wild West of the American government, which has repeatedly failed to protect us in far too many ways." https://t.co/moCrsxdd9b