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What a beautiful venue. Thanks @sanmarcobooks for hosting a great night in Jacksonville (at the Southside Baptist Church). . #booktourtourist

Chaplin, Bogart, Bergman. The brick wall across the street from my event tonight with the delightful @pronounced_ing . #booktourtourist @porter_square_books

You know you’re in Iowa when: This is your roadside view - just one mile from your speaking engagement. . Thanks @prairielightsbooks #booktourtourist

End of season.

Moon over Martha’s Vineyard as summer nears its end.

After the Storm (1952). ... On Martha’s Vineyard: “When the old boys talked you didn’t interrupt them. You let your concerns go and listened... you learned things about people who had been on whaling ships and had swum miles at sea holding their boots, who had walked across miles of Arctic ice... Keeping your mouth shut, you came to know the Island folks and what the Island stood for.” — Thomas Hart Benton

I’m proud to have my new story, “The Line”, in the summer issue of GRANTA (No. 148). The bound issue is beautiful, and can be purchased through indiebound.org, or Amazon.com

Every summer I like to read a mystery or suspense author chronologically. This summer it’s the amazing John le Carre’s nine “George Smiley” books. What a pleasure!

Stormy skies over the Safari Motel... Happily, I stumbled on the latest show of Bob Dylan’s paintings in London.

The ready-to-be-spun roulette wheel that is the ceiling of the @beacontheatre in NYC.

The fermenting room at Promontory Estates in Napa. A marriage of style and substance, form and function. 🍷

Happy Father’s Day, Dad. Not a day goes by without my missing you.

Kerouac, Kahlo, corks. An assemblage on the wall at Vesuvio’s after a visit to @citylightsbooks #booktourtourist

Detail of “Vigilante Days” from the History of San Francisco mural by Anton Refregier in the old Rincon Annex Post Office on Mission St. (1947). #booktourtourist

Happy 14th Birthday to my daughter, Esmé! This shot feels like it was taken just minutes ago...