WHAT have you finished reading recently? John Quincy Adams, Robert V. Remini. Also finished listening to a production of The Importance of Being Earnest that featured Stephen Fry as Lady Bracknell.

WHAT are you reading now? About to finish The Reversal, a Michael Connelly novel that features both of his series characters (Bosch and Haller), and I am listening to John Cleese perform The Screwtape Letters. I’m also still working through With Malice Towards None, a Lincoln biography.

WHAT are you reading next? I have Valiant Ambition, about George Washington and Benedict Arnold, checked out — but I don’t know if I can get to it before it expires. I also need to read some nonfiction that isn’t history: history accounts for 100% of my nonfiction reading this year. I’m expecting a le Guin piece on writing in the mail today — Steering the Craft. It’s fairly short and possibly consists of writing exercises in part.