Cool, Man

A note to you, kind readers:

If you are on Substack Notes, you might have seen me comment more than once the past week or so about my working on chapter 6 of Reason for Being in the World, “The Persecution of the Jews,” and that it is taking longer than I anticipated. If you have been reading along, you know that I am writing this “experiment in intellectual and spiritual accounting” — now at book length — in real time, as I publish it in installments on Substack. So, it seems, anticipate the unanticipated.

The effort on the chapter has become daunting, yet it is essential to the thematic purpose of the memoir and necessary at this point in the book’s development, after the chapters on my father’s early life in Ukraine. I persevere accordingly but am delayed in my publishing schedule.

Publishing schedule — there’s a topic. If you’ve been reading me long enough, you know I’ve altered Homo Vitruvius several times already, most recently with the (temporary, I hope) addition of American Sami…