— A book I love is Opacities: On Writing and the Writing Life by Sofia Samatar. On page 56 of my very dogeared copy, she says, “I want the writers I love to be seen, not for the self but for the ecstasy, the writerly ecstasy, caught and passed on like an electric charge. — I’m questioning a lot of stuff right now. And frankly, a lot of it is stuff I have no power to change, no influence over. Libby, for example, the library app doesn’t disallow ai-sloppola, I learned recently. They announced the “good news” that users can...