Kate Layte

And listen to the book and really just do what the title says.

That's all we need to do for a little while each day.

Another book that I'm excited about who I think is an honorary bookseller because he used to live in my neighborhood.

And when I started back in 2014, I was very understaffed and I had this customer come in and he would kind of come in every week and sort of like sniff all the books in a way that just, I could tell he was a literary person.

It was a little shy at first and then we got to talking and he told me he was Andrew Martin.

And his first book was Early Work, and it came out from FSG in 2018.

And it is wonderful.

It's about young people figuring things out, making mistakes.

And he's just got this sense of humor that cracks me up.

And

puts a smile on my face while also seeing the humanity in everything.

His latest, I just finished yesterday.

I could not put it down.

It's called Downtime.

And that's a recent release, I think also from FSG.

And it's a book about five friends as they're growing older and they're changing and they're trying to become authentic with their own desires and vulnerabilities.

And it's really funny.

It's got some kind of sexy parts.

I just...

I think he's one of the best writers working these days, a little underrated.