It’s new book day in the White House! In anticipation of a quiet office hour (I was correct), stopped in at the Bull’s Head for a copy of A. Van Jordan’s M-A-C-N-O-L-I-A. Then, arrived home to an overdue Amazon order consisting of Matthea Harvey’s first book, a Mark Jarman book I’ve been looking forward to, and Richard Siken’s Crush, which I assigned to a student assuming I would get the book before the end of the assignment. Ladybug has a volleyball game tonight so I’ll have some time to finish M-A-C-N-O-L-I-A and start in on Crush; necessity dictates that I should start the latter immediately, but the former has its hooks in deep.