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What I’m Up To

Boats: Restoring a ‘88 Boston Whaler Montauk 17 and a Joel White Shellback Dinghy, and helping maintain Thora, a Ted Hood-designed 36’ yawl.

Running: Just getting started, trying to hit 300 miles in 2026.

Reading: Have a good recommendation? Send it my way, and see what’s been on my nightstand, below.

What I'm reading in 2026:
Title Author Notes
Bacchus & Me: Adventures in the Wine Cellar Jay McInerney Finished
TBD TBD In Progress/Finished


 

What I read in 2025:
Title Author Notes
The New Middle East Paul Danahar Finished
France on Trial Julian Jackson In Progress
The Long Game Dorrie Clark Finished
The Cosmopolites Atossa Araxia Abrahamian Finished
How to Do Nothing Jenny Odell Finished
The Art of the Long View Peter Schwartz Finished
Raiders, Rulers, and Traders David Chaffetz Finished
Ceremonial Time: Fifteen Thousand Years on One Square Mile John Hanson Mitchell Finished
Ship Fever & Other Stories Andrea Barrett Finished
The Signals Are Talking Amy Webb Abandoned
Is a River Alive? Robert McFarlane Finished
The Old Ways Robert McFarlane Finished (An annual read)
The Anxious Generation Jonathan Haidt In Progress
The Looking Glass War John Le Carré Finished
Abundance Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson Finished
Strategy Lawrence Freedman Finished
Return of a King William Dalrymple In Progress
Stillwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45 Barbara W. Tuchman In Progress
Between Meals A. J. Liebling Finished
The Shooting Party Isabel Colegate Finished
Naples '44 Normal Lewis In Progress
The Habsburgs Martyn Rady Finished
The Untouchable John Banville Finished
Existentialism is a Humanism John-Paul Sartre Finished (An annual Read)
Ship Fever Andrea Barrett Finished
A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling Finished