Tom & Alissa

I have been all over since Wednesday. As I said to some good folks on Thursday night, I’d been (on Wednesday alone) in or through New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington DC, and Boston - if the founding fathers could only see me now. And I’m relatively confident I’ll get around to sharing more about this week’s trip later, since it was a lovely trip with lovely people in all aspects, and I came home with plenty of things to think about.

But all that to say, I got home this afternoon, brought my luggage to the apartment, then turned around to go to the New Yorker Festival’s Town Hall on Race & Class in America. It was a spirited debate which actually answered some questions I’d been asking about the party shifts since the 1950s. But I am home now, and I am tired. So here are a few tidbits that I need to mention before I forget:

- There is a new edition of The Curator available for your reading pleasure. We’re a little thin on articles this week (want to write for us? contact me with your ideas!), but they’re both well worth reading and I’m confident they’re worth your time.

- My review of Rachel Getting Married, a film I very much liked, is at ChristianityToday.com.

- Along those lines, I am now a Rotten Tomatoes critic. Yes, this is a very important moment in my little life.

I am absolutely exhausted and now that I’ve cleaned the apartment and blogged, I am off to bed. Tomorrow, I attend a Malcolm Gladwell lecture, also at the New Yorker Festival (I haven’t the foggiest idea of what he’s talking about, but it doesn’t really matter, because that man is fascinating). Book list for September forthcoming!