• Read A.D. Nuttall’s Shakespeare the Thinker and wrote a six-hundred-word notice for my Contentions book column.
• Lunched at Good Enough to Eat, whose waitresses are as nice as pie.
• Came home to find eight parcels from publicists, one of which contained six gorgeous-looking finished copies of New York Review Books’ new edition of Elaine Dundy’s The Dud Avocado, featuring an introduction by me. (It’ll be out June 5–order now!)
• Listened to Leos Janacek’s Concertino, a weird and wonderfully prickly 1925 piece for piano, two violins, viola, clarinet, horn, and bassoon.
• Walked across Central Park (first time this year!) to Knoedler & Company, where I saw and reveled in a newly opened show of watercolors by Milton Avery.
• Took a pre-theater nap.
• Went to a Broadway press preview of Terrence McNally’s Deuce.
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