Three Things

Spring-forward dinners, excellent gluten-free pasta, what Emma Straub is reading and loving right now

Greetings friends, and please join me as I attempt to stay focused on this stracciatella sandwich and the absolutely electric blue-and-orange-spiked energy coursing through the city right now, instead of thinking too catastrophically about the Knicks’ loss last night. (How’m I doing?) A few housekeeping notes before we officially begin: For those of you in the New York area, tonight, Tuesday June 9 at 7pm, I’ll be at Greenpoint’s Threes Brewing talking with Amateur Gourmet’s Adam Roberts about his now-out-in-paperback novel Food Person; and this Thursday, June 11, 2:00 ET, I’ll be in conversation on Substack Live with my book-editor-husband Andy Ward asking all the hard-hitting questions such as: What’s it like to edit writers as diverse as Yuval Harari, Lena Dunham, Imbolo Mbue, and Elizabeth Strout? What’s the go-to gift book for Father’s Day? What do you think happened in your childhood that makes you so obsessive about clean kitchen countertops?