Now I’m reading Susan Orlean’s memoir, Joyride. Right now I’m reading The Emergency: A Novel by George Packer (2025) and really enjoying it. Maureen Milliken: I have a lot of trouble reading fiction — particularly my favorite genre, mystery fiction — when I’m writing, which is almost all the time now. And I’m not talking the kind that poeple say they’re reading so they sound smart when they’re really not reading them at all. Right now I’m reading “The Phillip Island Murder,” by Vikki Petraitis, after hearing her talk about the topic — a 1986 Australian murder — on a podcat.