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Reading · December 20, 2025 · 7 min

What I Read in Winter

Winter is for rereading. I return, always, to Elizabeth Strout — for her sentences that seem written in one clean breath.

This year I discovered a slim volume of Mary Oliver I had somehow missed, and read it three times through in a single week.

A short list is coming to the letter this month, for anyone who would like to read along.

— Lily