Good Monday afternoon in New York City, where it's about to get cold and windy.
Here's what else is happening:
- Montclair State is rebranding its humanities department and moving English and Philosophy students into its new "School of Human Narratives and Creative Expressions," which Joyce Carol Oates thinks is stupid.
- Zohran Mamdani's dad, Mahmood Mamdani, is selling more books now.
- Unrelated, it's horny lit-girl winter.
- New York City realtors say it's tough selling nice apartments full of old furniture and stacks of hardcover books because rich buyers want everything to look like a West Elm catalog.
- Impressive operation at the Bronx bakery that makes all the donuts and pastries for our breakfast carts.
- "Do you have a vague feeling of ‘being toxic’ even if you can’t pin it on any particular symptom?" You might be inflamed.
- Luigi Mangione fans are still at it.
- The "Paddington" musical on the West End is getting rave reviews, and this is a cool interview with the duo who voice and operate the on-stage puppet.
- Cameron Winter is also getting rave reviews.
- And finally, outta here:
