Sandy Dunkin'

Waving from the shore + links, etc.

Greetings from sunny North Carolina! I’m at the beach with my parents/brother/kid, so this’ll be quick. However, I *have* spent time contemplating names for my imaginary beach house, à la David Sedaris, and here are the top candidates:

1. Sandy Dunkin’

2. The Tide Pod

3. Dune-ah Summer

4. Foam Home

Feel free to chime in with your own.

Meet me on the pier at sundown. Wear a red scarf.

brooklyn independent comics showcase

Just a reminder that I’ll be selling books at the Brooklyn Independent Comics Showcase on April 26-27 at Industry City. On April 26, I’ll appear on a panel about self-publishing with the insanely talented folks below:

linkbucket

• “Would Joan Didion have wanted the world to see her notes on therapy?” Critics and friends are split. (New York Times)

• “North Carolina advances bill on book bans in public schools.” This boils my blood — but then I remember how determined and resourceful kids are. Ban a book, and they’ll find and read it within 24 hours! (Associated Press)

• “Will tariffs drive more people to shop secondhand?” That would be awesome — as long as they don’t discover my favorite spot to find $8 high-end pants. (NPR)

• Enjoy this week’s New Yorker cartoons.

• Charlotte Brontë’s handmade miniature book of poems is being published for the first time, with an introduction by Patti Smith. (LitHub)

  “I don’t think of art as prophecy, and I don’t think my purpose in making the art that I do is to be a prophet. But if you are an artist, you perhaps have antennae that are more sensitive than other people’s, or at least you’re paying more attention. There are signals in the zeitgeist that are suggesting what is happening beyond people’s normal comprehension. And so if you’re sensitive to that and you allow that to take control of some of what you’re doing, you’re going to anticipate things that will happen. People especially talk about Videodrome that way, as anticipating the internet and so on. When you see the movie, it’s kind of undeniable.”

  — David Cronenberg (in a recent conversation with Jim Jarmusch for Interview magazine)

THANK YOU to all new subscribers, including Jeffrey, Christina, Amelie, Sharon, Julie, Dexter and Jonas!

This spicy seagull is the resurrected spirit of Totie Fields.

I’ll return soon — for now, I must go eat fudge, ride a go-kart and build a time machine out of sand.

xoxo
george sea scott
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