My town has this reputation of being affluent, but that’s not the case for many. If you haven’t heard, Bethlehem Public Library won’t charge fines anymore. Lose your sense of time and you lose yourself. Later Alice and Amy learned that losing sense of time is one of the first signs of dementia. “Why did it matter what time it was? It wasn’t like he had someplace to be. The novel features a Taiwanese immigrant caring for her aging father and trying to create a project about the Tehching Hsieh, a performance artist who spent a year living outside in New York City, a year tied to another artist and a year punching a time clock on the hour.Ĭhen knits together a stirring meditation on the passing of time: I haven’t begun to think about summer reading because, you know, I was a little busy with “Ulysses,” but I did finish “Activities of Daily Living,” a stunning debut from Lisa Hsiao Chen. Supreme Court knocks down New York's 'concealed-carry' law Lawsuit loss prompts 'temporary' closure for DiCarlo's strip club.Hudson Valley entrepreneur has an $8 million racetrack in his backyard.Fuccillo commercial sidekick Tom Park dies after cancer battle.Organizers frustrated after Juneteenth encounter with police.This is a little embarrassing, but we pulled into a parking lot near the creek and my daughter indulged me while I paid homage and took some pictures. “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek” won Dillard a Pulitzer and her description of a frog being decimated by a water bug was embedded in my mind by a journalism professor sharing her writing. Last December during our road trip to New Orleans, we stayed in a hotel in Virginia near Tinker Creek. “The screams lift out of the street, and in restaurants up and down the block doors are locked and the diners are informed, You cannot leave, not right now, sorry for the disturbance.”Ĭhee also writes about how he studied under Annie Dillard, who also lived on Cape Cod, and is one of my all-time favorites. “Everyone is running now, and everywhere batons rise,” Chee writes.
He was in San Francisco demonstrating against government inaction during the AIDS epidemic: He writes about his first protest in 1989, also the name of the chapter. I’m reading Alexander Chee’s “How to Write an Autobiographical Novel” right now. In Provincetown, I visited Tim’s Used Books, a well-stocked respite from the heat, and picked up “Bad Feminist” by Roxane Gay and “Giant” by Edna Ferber. I’m plenty busy with my life and trying to carve out time to read all the books I keep accumulating. June is Pride month and I’m angry by the actions taken in other parts of the country against LGBTQ+ people, particularly kids. We walked down Commercial Street in P-town with all the rainbow flags and just took in the positive, accepting vibe.