David Moldawer

Happy Independence Day to my fellow Americans! For every other passenger on Spaceship Earth: The United States is currently experiencing technical difficulties. Please stand by for our regularly scheduled home of the free and land of the brave. I don’t know about you, but there are times I wish

Editing’s a thankless job. Turns out it always has been. According to the historian Anthony Grafton in this piece at Lapham’s Quarterly [https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/correctors], book editors—who began as “correctors”—have been underpaid and under-appreciated ever since Gutenberg: > One of the most striking

I was delighted to see that Marc Maron finally interviewed Jerry Seinfeld for his podcast [https://open.spotify.com/episode/6FEiNkrGmKgfm5E9oQinsc?si=vVQ9pBeoR4qVjrwYSAwX_Q] . Like the other exemplars I regularly feature—Philip Glass, David Lynch, David Bowie, etc.—Seinfeld is a consummate producer. Disciplined, rigorous, relentless, I think he’d

> There is something to be learned from a rainstorm. When meeting with a sudden shower, you try not to get wet and run quickly along the road. But doing such things as passing under the eaves of houses, you still get wet. When you are resolved from the beginning,

> The mental part is the hardest part, and I think that’s what separates the good players from the great players.—Michael Jordan No, I haven’t been watching The Last Dance on Netflix. I just wanted to say, you know, that, in pretty much those words. Being an

> Just keep swimming.—Dory, Finding Nemo I prefer to send the Maven Game bright and early at the start of the weekend. In fact, waking up on a Saturday without a newsletter queued up feels excruciating. But this time, Sunday afternoon will have to do. We’re all going

Leonard, the main character in Christopher Nolan’s film Memento, can’t form new memories. For a few minutes, he’s right there with you. Then his brain hits the reset button and everything just floats away. It’s a real condition: anterograde amnesia [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anterograde_

We finally got some groceries delivered yesterday. It’d been a long stretch—tough to get a Whole Foods or Instacart slot in Brooklyn these days. (Yes, of course, there are far worse problems to have.) Can I just say that I will never take apples for granted again? Peeling

Not long after Isaac Newton earned his bachelor’s degree from Cambridge University, the entire school closed down due to the plague. (Sound familiar?) Young Newton must have been frustrated to find himself back home in gloomy Woolsthorpe, stuck in the house with nothing to do after experiencing the excitement

I’m going to give you a break. You don’t need to read another word about The Situation this morning. (Not That Situation [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dlpl2Gzgmk], This Situation [https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/487216-viral-video-shows-nba-player-rudy-gobert-touching-reporters] .) Instead, I’ll dive directly into the usual meshuggaas [https: