Today’s the day! Meet the pack: the beloved dogs of Alice Hoffman, Jodi Picoult, Roxanne Gay, Elizabeth Strout, Laura Zigman, Adriana Trigiani, yours truly, and so many other writers.
And the vault!!!!
Never prouder of my Armenian heritage than when surrounded by brilliant Armenian artists and thinkers. Today I was at the Armenian Museum of America in Watertown, MA to see magnificent new paintings by Serj Tankian of System of a Down and Arshile Gorky!
Had the best time today at Boston Playwrights Theatre to see the world premiere of “Zabel in Exile,” by R.N. Sandberg and directed by Megan Sandberg-Zakian. In the cast of the powerful drama? My amazing Grace Experience. Super proud dad. Also? I loved participating in talk-back after the matinee.
Drop everything and read this. You’ll thank me. It is a wonder — and why we read novels. @tayari.bsky.social @aaknopf.bsky.social
Jesse’s face when I told her Kristi Noem was fired.
Jesse and I are LOVING these longer days!
So, how long until the fired and “disgraced” (and disgraceful) Kristi Noem is hired by the Goebbels-like propagandists at Fox News ?
Great day at the bookstore! I know what I’m reading this weekend — the new novel from the brilliant Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney! @barnesandnoble.com
Look for this gem this summer!
I am about to wake her to bring her to bed. Good-night.
I thought about Hamnet and how art springs from the subterranean parts of our soul and is given form by conscious planning. It reminded me of my experience writing THE AMATEUR. My essay about that part of my life is now live on Substack: tinyurl.com/3j854r8d
I can’t wait for you to meet Mira…the amateur. Learn more here: chrisbohjalian.com .
Happiest of pub days to the brilliant Gin Phillips on a banger of a book. Get your copy of RUBY FALLS this week!
To all my friends who read and readers who are friends in and around New Jersey: Please join me next month.
The word of the day is "empathy." It means actually giving two fucks about people's pain and trying not to make the world more of a dumpster fire than it has to be. Look, we all know the planet spins toward chaos and entropy. . .but if you are a person with power, consider "empathy."
She was.
Good-night.
Thanks!
Read this interview with Christina Applegate by Elisabeth Egan of @nytimes.com and file it under a real profile in courage.
Magic hour.
Oreos with chocolate filling and, I suppose, SO MANY CHEMICALS.
I sure did.
Not brave. Just lacking in common sense. . .
Either Trump lied last year when he said it would be decades before Iran could reconstitute its nuclear program because we had successfully obliterated it or he is lying now.
Temperature topped 32! First bike ride of the season!
Lunch dessert.
Seeing WUTHERING HEIGHTS at the Middlebury Marquis tonight -- my fave cinema.
"You said I killed you—haunt me, then. . .Be with me always—take any form—drive me mad! Only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you!"
The damage predatory men inflict on young women. The exploration of the class divide in America in EVEN a very tony suburb.
