From the Desk Recommends... Knowing When to Quit

The month’s gathering of links, a playlist, Desk Book Club notes, and a book giveaway.

In the first three months of the year, I wrote 30,000 words of my new manuscript, while also writing for this newsletter—more essays than I planned, because sometimes the writing is simply happening and one shouldn’t get in the way. During the weekend in between hitting 25,000 and 30,000 words, I had my first-ever migraine. There was weather to blame (i…