“Hate-Watching” is so….MTV’s The Real World. Welcome to the restorative world of Hate-Reading.

Distractions in the Style Section, Die-hard Classicists, Lucinda, Finnish summer, A New Leaf.

Road trip to Western Wisconsin, Theatrical Music at American Players Theatre, Dr. John bids farewell, Roadside peaches.

“Even that Coppertoned crowd a few beach towels away might turn down their Duo Lipa and lend Franz Joseph an ear. “

Haydn on the Beach, The Diplomat, Bruce, The Lonely Palette, Brooks and Apatow.

“I did not excel in the Art of the Pen. The good sisters of St. Jude the Apostle school, sensing, perhaps, a rebellious spirit--or the creep of slovenliness--attempted to correct this…”

The Joy of Scrawl, Tana French, Gio Swaby, Hail, the Conquering Hero, Summer Swoon.

“But whatever the book—leatherbound tome or tattered paperback, poetry or pablum—I cannot understand why anyone would want to read a book on a beach.”

Life’s a Beach, Steve Reich, Kris Kristofferson, The Gospel at Colonus, Martin Amis.