My alumbud Rick Slagle: “My Mary Washington friend has been published again and I am enjoying my 2nd Eric Nolan book!”
Thanks, man!
Irony is when you exit the dry cleaner and a HUGE flock of birds IMMEDIATELY takes flight and poop-bombs you like you were Dresden — which could NECESSITATE A SUBSEQUENT DRY CLEANING. (I actually do need to throw my jacket in the washer now.)
This is collusion. That lady feeds the birds with a portion of her profits. I’ll bet there are rows of feeders on the roof.
This quote is often attributed online to a letter from Emily Dickinson to her sister-in-law, Catherine May Scott. But that might be apocryphal — and the felicitation might date as far back as Plato.
Ali Jane Smith gives us an excellent breakdown here at the Sydney Review of Books.