On getting better at writing: I've been told that what you read is how you write. So, I'm curious to know what you're reading nowadays📚 It can be newsletters, your go-to place for news, and of course, books!
love this. I usually I'm in the middle of a couple of books at once. Right now it's a few books about religious history (the way religions develop over time as its own kind of narrative art)! I'm reading Arabs by Tim Mackintosh Smith and The Story of the Jews by Simon Schama. Arabs has been extremely fascinating!
I also like trying to mix fiction with nonfiction. Right now I'm in the middle of a great collection of short stories by Lucia Berlin called A Manual for Cleaning Women. We actually started a great benefit at Clay where you can get a free book a month. That's been awesome. Otherwise I love going on a tear at the library!
I don't read any newsletters regularly, but for the news I have a cherished daily print subscription to the NYT and end up on various sites online too.