Today, I took in:

“Brownies” by ZZ Packer and “What You Pawn I Will Redeem” by Sherman Alexie, in 100 Years of the Best American Short Stories

“Fear of a Black President” in Ta-Nehisi Coates’s We Were Eight Years in Power

the rest of The Grey King

the first section of Today Will Be Different by Maria Semple

Set It Up — an excellent new romantic comedy on Netflix, using and undercutting the genre’s tropes with skill

I made:

more plans for my PNW trip

a WITWW post