There are stylists I really love. I'm a huge Joan Didion fan - if I wrote something that she might like, then I'd feel very proud. I want the action to move as quickly as it does in A Book of Common Prayer, where one thing bonks right into another very quickly.
John DarnielleMay we all emerge from winter with our strength renewed and any unwanted pieces left under the ice.
John DarnielleYou learn to present dark things without including their ability to harm, treasuring them for what they are.
John DarnielleMen tend to dominate whatever public discourse they participate in, and another big part of feminism is to let women have their say. Men's voices can be welcome at the table, but there is a time and a place, and maybe it's now, for men to make a little less noise, make their needs less known, and listen to the needs of others.
John Darnielle