I Loved Smoking

I’m told that smoking has declined basically in tandem with the rise of the smartphone. This makes sense. They’re both something to do with your hands in the empty moments, before or afterwards, when you’re waiting for something else to happen. Both of them will also kill you.

I’m not a Swiftie (nothing against them! some of my best friends are Swifties!) but this summer I was sad not to be, because the collective ecstasy of the Eras tour looked so delicious and so important, and collective ecstasy is perhaps the thing I miss most about being A Person Who Loves Music. After all, I once wrote a whole book about the power ... See more

I’m not a big fan anymore. It’s such a Peter Pan kind of place, where you live in the moment, which is beautiful, until you realize that years have gone by.