Mississippi Sunsets and Miss Marple
Good morning! Adam here. I’m listening to Lauren Laverne’s morning show on Radio 6, as I try to do every weekday morning. Occasionally I have to remind myself that radio doesn’t need to be completed.
The other day I completed a notebook, the Field Notes Birch edition. Filled it up in one month, faster than my typical 6-8 weeks.
As I flipped through the pages of the last month, here’s what stood out:
Theodor Adorno, Cyril Connolly, and Assam tea turned up in multiple readings this month
Attempts to turn my dreams into rhyming couplets
Sontag’s diaries via Brian Dillion’s book Essayism (some notes on the blog)
Wrote ten pages while spending nine hours in Nashville: Skull’s, Robert’s Western World, Museum of African American Music, Valerie Gerard Brown, Jane’s Hideaway
Reading James Salter’s Dusk while listening to Americana.
Real name of the day: Charlotte Smoot, New Deputy Clerk, City of Marion
Books read: Exit West, Missing Time, McSweeney’s 71, Essayism, Dusk and Other Stories, The Upstairs Delicatessen
The last thing I wrote about in this notebook: Mississippi sunsets and Miss Marple