Loves non sequiturs, cats, Oxford commas, giraffe-cams, Joan Didion, lucid dreaming, Anais Nin, out-of-body experiences, baby hippos, David Mitchell, donkeys, basement jazz clubs, Marguarite Duras, Amazon KDP, pasta and bread, quantum particles, William Gaddis, Graham Greene, Robin Sloan, the James Webb Space Telescope, Italo Calvino, Amor Towles, Star Trek, dogs, Manhattan.