Duchess Goldblatt

I prescribe one FROG by Anne Fadiman followed by a dose of THE COMPANY OF OWLS by @pollyrowena.bsky.social if symptoms persist.

I follow your lead immediately and with a song in my heart.

Which one will heal me, Summer?

Never worry! I picked up all your lost hours overnight and I'll parcel them back out when a benevolent mood strikes.

I am certain of very little in this life, but I'd bet good money that indeed we are not.

Daylight is irrelevant if you have the metric system, because it measures time not in hours but by weight, using kitchen scales. That's only because the international governing bodies couldn't agree on the duration of a coffee spoon.

Spring forward, beloved. We'll lose a little sleep but I think it's worth it.

By how many years are we all setting our clocks ahead?

Okay honey. And I'll see what I can do to plan a little party.

The covers of three books. Left to right: Gandolfini: Jim, Tony, and the life of a legend, about the late Sopranos actor. The cover shows Gandolfini looking shy, peering offscreen with one unobstructed eye and another that peeks out between the fingers of his right hand. CENTER: The cover of Cinema Her Way, a coffee table book by Marya E. Gates about female directors. On the cover is actress Michelle Rodriguez as the boxer heroine of Karyn Kusama's sports drama Girlfight, about a woman boxer. RIGHT David Hockney's painting collection The Arrival of Spring in Normandy, showing a painting of a verdant field. In the background of the field is green grass. in the upper foreground are the branches of a tree sprouting white, cottony buds.

A screenshot of the pre-orders section at mzs.press. Three screenshots of books that have not yet been released. I Am The Night, Daniel Dockery's book about Batman the Brave and the Bold, has a silhouette of Batman stretching from the top to the bottom of the cover, with the title of the book and a nighttime Gotham skyline circumscribed by the borders of the Batman silhouette. CENTER The cover of The Ring Cycle, Matt Zoller Seitz and Odie Henderson's book on the Rocky and Creed films. The cover is white except for a pair of black boxing gloves floating there RIGHT The cover of Documentary Now!, the 600-page, 7-pound coffee table book celebrating the aforementioned IFC Channel series parodying classic documentaries.

Screenshot of three books carried at mzs.press arts bookstore: LEFT: Cover of Lead Sister, a biography of Karen Carpenter, featuring a closeup of Carpenter playing and singing with The Carpenters. CENTER: The cover of Anthony Hopkins' We Did OK, Kid, a memoir of his life and career. On the cover is Hopkins in closeup as he looks presently, narrowed blue eyes looking directly at the spectator. RIGHT: Cover of Louis Armstrong In His Own Words, a collection of the bandleader's correspondence. The cover image is a photograph of a probably fortysomething Armstrong seated at the wooden desk in his office where he often wrote letters.

Screenshot of the covers of 3 books carried at mzs.press Arts Bookstore. LEFT: The cover of Gotham City Cocktails, a book of mixed drink recipes inspired by Batman. Art deco-style flowing border lines flow around and around the interior of the dust jacket. At the center are drawings of two tall cocktail glasses and between them, a shot glass and a tumbler with a sword-pierced cherry in it. CENTER: The cover of Downton Abbey Afternoon Tea Cookbook. Green cover, white writing and graphics. The central image is a teapot with stem lines coming out of it, and at the pot's base, a teacup and saucer and a separate plate of biscuits. RIGHT: Bob's Burgers "The Re-Recipe Box," a set of recipe cards inspired by the joke hamburger names featured on the small board at the front of Bob's joint. Red sides with small graphics, cover image of the restaurant.

Greetings, new friends! You may know me as an author, a prolific Bluesky poster and 4th place finisher on So You Call That Dancing? But you might not know that my partner Judith (@mzpress) and I have an online arts bookstore that's growing every day. Full inventory here: mzs.press/EVERYTHING-W...

Not often enough, if we're honest.

I take your point, poodle. The world is heavy. Have you tried propping it up on a stack of books?

The Man Nobody Killed The first comprehensive book about Michael Stewart, the young Black artist and model who was the victim of a fatal assault by police in 1983, from Elon Green...

I've been so weirdly busy that I forgot to tell you the paperback is coming out Tuesday. It's a steal. us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

One day you'll wake up and there will be unmistakable signs of collusion.

All I'm saying is whenever you force your brain and body to perform the tricks that you've assigned value, they meet up in secret while you sleep and plan their revenge.

I can think of nothing I'd like better.

All right. Send the eternal spirit out and about without you.

How wonderful! Of course I remember, pet. I hope you all have a marvelous time. Send the gang my love.

Take your eternal spirit out for a drive around town with the windows down. Introduce it to your friends. Buy a round of drinks for once.

He has improved that chair in every possible way and you know it.

I'm glad you asked, Guy. The preferred menu is mood based. Let's plan a number of options and see where the night takes us.

Why indeed? A light buffet with a dessert table will tide me over just fine, Jeffrey. Thank you.

I quite agree. I absolutely resent being put in this position.

I can't stay away from you, pet.

You've never let me down once, Julia. Get some good rest tonight and I'll come check on you in the morning.

And you've given up snacks on my behalf? A temporary reprieve, then. Don't think I won't come check again after Easter.

If you don't see me visiting you in your dreams, you might examine your life choices, starting with the snacks you have on offer.

I beg your pardon: I was thinking only, as ever, of the 1995 version, which is to say life's greatest joy itself.

Here I am, Benjamin.

It's all just leeches and good vibes in your pediatrics practice, I suppose, when you know the World Health Organization has been calling for administering the BBC six-part series since 1995.