Happy Thanksgiving

And a fun link.

Hi all,

This is, I think, one of the Thursdays I’m meant to skip, but just wanted to say Happy Thanksgiving to all of you who celebrate it.

And two more things….

(1)

I’ve gotten a few emails about accounts purporting to be me, on Bluesky and Facebook. These are all fakes. Story Club is the only social media-type thing I’m doing.

(2)

Second: if you’re looking for a fun way to support an important literary magazine (namely n+1) AND get personalized book recommendations, check this out.

The fundraiser is called Bookmatch—which my contact at n+1, Dayna Tortorici, describes as “an idiosyncratic, off-the-wall, but ultimately insightful book recommendation service…A donation of any size to n+1 gets you a link to the Bookmatch quiz, a homespun personality quiz written by the editors and staff that spits out ten book recommendations based on your answers. The recs are written by n+1 editors, contributors, and friends, and this year's recommenders include Mary Gaitskill, Hernan Diaz, Gary Shteyngart, Danzy Senna, Rumaan Alam, and others.”

As many of you will know, n+1 is an energetic, innovative print and digital magazine of the type that fights against our culture’s encroaching, dopy, middle-minded big media by being committed to the value of being articulate, daring, and (yes) intellectual.

Dayna also says that one of her favorite things to do is: “take Bookmatch twice: once in a "typical" frame of mind, and again when I feel another facet of my personality emerging under the influence of some mood. It's pretty amazing how different the results can be while still feeling tailored to one's tastes.”

Happy Thanksgiving to you all - please join us on Sunday, behind the paywall, for further discussion of Katherine Anne Porter’s “Theft.”