Drove up the Taconic to Albany, where I spoke with Don Faulkner, of the New York State Writers Institute, and met William Kennedy, the author of “Ironweed,” and got a nighttime tour of the capital—amazing, crazy architecture!—after giving a reading in the New York State Museum. Signed lots of books! (It’s easier than writing them.) Lauren McIntyre, a former New Yorker colleague, was there with friends. It was great to see her. And the bakers of Albany made a fantastic lemon cake, a slice of which I shall have for breakfast.

Thank you, writers, librarians, readers, questers, and bakers of Albany, for having me.