First, the So You Want to Be a Writer segment of the Australia Centre for Writers, recorded earlier this summer, is up. I don’t remember what I said, but here’s the link.

I also had two blog posts up at newyorker.com this week, one I like to call Nerdsday, featuring my friend Merrill Perlman, which is about Benjamin Dreyer’s new card game (Stet!) and a Zoom show (“That Word Chat”), and the other about keeping the peace with a neighbor in Rockaway. Thanks to The New Yorker for publishing them both, especially the one about Rockaway, with a wonderful illustration by Joana Avillez.