July 26, 2016: First: happy Mick Jagger’s birthday (which actually has nothing to do with this photo of Keith). Second: okay, so this is a lovely development: The Awl has just posted the first in my series of three short essays about my (very nervous) relationship with books (original series title: Your Books: Three Essays on What to Do with Them). You can read the first essay, “How to Read More Books Now That You’re Old,” here, and you can read the other two essays tomorrow and the next day. (If you know me at all, you know that I will be pestering you to read them when the time comes.)