![]() The app is basically a reader app offering access to a collection of books for kids. I have reviewed several great kids book reader apps that are subscription based and I think this is a great way to get kids reading more. ![]() Recently I was approached by the developers of a new app Epic! – Books for Kids, asking if I would like to review the app. And listen to us on the Book Review podcast. ![]() Like this morning, I got up at 10 and at 10:30 Hugh said to me, ‘I’m tired of you already.’ So I said, ‘OK, can we start over?’ And we just started the day again.”įollow New York Times Books on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, sign up for our newsletter or our literary calendar. “I was really afraid he’d get tired of me. “It’s been fantastic, it really has,” Sedaris went on, in an unexpected burst of straight-up emotional enthusiasm. In any case, both he and Hamrick fell ill with and then recovered from Covid-like symptoms early in the spring, though they have not been tested for the virus.) How am I supposed to write about that? I said to him the other day, ‘I hope you die of coronavirus, so I can write about it.’” “The thing is,” Sedaris added, “I mean, I’ve talked to people who said, ‘We’ve been home trapped together and we’re at each other’s throats.’ But in our case, we’ve never gotten along better. “You’ve been with someone for 30 years, and it’s great not to see them for a few months.”īut lockdown a deux has been a revelation. “For the past 20 years I’ve been gone every fall and every spring, and people said, ‘It must be horrible to be away from Hugh for so long,’ and I’ve always thought, ‘No, it’s actually kind of great,’” Sedaris said. In normal times, Sedaris travels so frequently that the two are rarely in one place together for long. I thought we’d spend a lot of time watching things, but Hugh” - that would be his boyfriend, Hugh Hamrick, an artist and a familiar character in the Sedaris oeuvre - “falls asleep, so you can’t watch anything with him.” “I was the last person on Earth to get it,” he said. Sedaris himself subscribed to Netflix in January. “People are like, Can you record a message of hope for all the people who were going to come to your show?’ and I’m like, ‘No, because it’s not like there aren’t things to watch already.’” “My goal is to get through this without ever going on Zoom or FaceTime or Skype,” he said. He rallied, left the hospice and is now in an assisted-living facility, in good health considering that he is 97 and a global pandemic is underway. In a quintessentially Sedaris move, though, his father did not die. They made a kind of peace last year, Sedaris wrote in March, as his father lay dying in a hospice. Those who follow Sedaris’s autobiographical writing, which has softened and become more emotional and self-reflective in recent years, will recall that the author and his father have long had a contentious relationship. Later I’d maybe get a crosstown BLM to Second Avenue, then walk home from there.” ‘I’ll just take this BLM down to 23rd,’ I’d tell myself. Over time I came to think of the marches the way I think of buses and subways. “‘Do you need sunblock? Hand sanitizer? It’s nice to be part of a group, and I like walking down the center of the street. “The people are kind and thoughtful - always distributing snacks and water,” Sedaris said. More recently, he has walked city streets crowded with people, finding camaraderie and shared humanity in the Black Lives Matter protests. He has also seen the city at its most vulnerable, its late-night streets dotted with the homeless and destitute and occasionally at its weirdest. Usually people who come up with that stuff are writing for newspapers, or they’re on TV.” “They’re so articulate and thoughtful, and they’re not regurgitating what they’ve already heard. “You’ll be in the park, and suddenly you’ll hear some very articulate person talking about what a horrible person Donald Trump is,” Sedaris said. He is constantly amazed, he said, at the high caliber of New Yorkers’ discourse. These excursions have showed him the city at its best. “I’m not against it,” he said, “but everything changes once you start doing that - you can’t stop.” Although he is a compulsive collector of trash in the English countryside, where he lives much of the time, he has resisted the temptation to clean up the streets of New York. “I like to start the next day with six miles under my belt,” Sedaris said. “Everywhere I go it smells the same, and it smells like my breath.” He generally has two outdoor shifts, the second after midnight, so that he (or Fitbit) can apply those miles to the next day’s tally. “The other week I walked all the way to Astoria,” he said.
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