Four things I’m super-psyched about, you guys!
> The new album by the Chills, Silver Bullets. They’re a New Zealand band that’s been mostly silent for 20 years but that made one of my favorite albums of all time, Submarine Bells. I love artists who keep finding a way–or a reason–to make art.
> This novel I’m reading by Alice McDermott, After This. Sentence by sentence, paragraph by paragraph, an almost excruciating pleasure. Sublime music of the American banal.
> Season 3 of The Americans. All about trust, and family, and the selves we choose to show in public and in private. Plus excruciatingly (that word again) intense global political intrigue.
> Frederick Wiseman’s new film, In Jackson Heights. At the exact moment when you were wondering what a 21st century city really feels like, here’s your answer.