Greetings, book and treat people! It is September, though it’s in the 90s here and I’m hiding in my cave, so I can’t say that I’m happy about it—though every day brings us closer to October. I’ve been swimming at the lake every morning for the last two weeks, and I’ve been thinking basically nonstop about delight.
I accidentally threw myself an impromptu Ross Gay readathon at the end of August. I read Be Holding during the Sealey Challenge (reviewed here), and I was so utterly in awe of it that I decided to reread Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude on the last day of August (which I wrote about here). I also spent a week listening to Gay’s upcoming essay collection, The Book of (More) Delights, mostly while driving back and forth to the lake. It’s out on September 19th, and you really ought to preorder it or put in your library hold—go on, I’ll wait. If you need more convincing, I reviewed it here.
Gay’s work is an incredible gift. Like The Book of Delights, The Book of (More) Delights is a…
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