- Dr. Cornell West on the unpopular James Baldwin 
- Luminous and life-affirming: on the struggle with perfection and failure, Agnes Martin 
- Russell Danzen on Dancing Separate, Together 
- Reading on Kindle: The Art of Solitude by Stephen Bachelor 
- Reading via Audible: Slowness by Milan Kundera 
- Current morning poetry: The Death of Sitting Bear, N. Scott Momaday 
- Discovered: The art of Martina Margaux Cozzi, Alex Kanevsky, Felicia Cocotzin Ruiz, Vera Edwards 
- I almost never pre-order books before they are released but this was a must 
- Karl Ove Knausgaard on Van Gogh’s commitment to death, “only then did the world … become possible for him.” 
