Fran Magazine: Sunday Dispatch, end of spring break

Okay, okay - not a real Sunday Dispatch, let's all catch up again

This is the Fran Magazine Sunday Dispatch, a weekly culture diary usually for paid subscribers only. The Sunday Dispatch details what I’m watching, reading, playing, and listening to. Did you know Fran Magazine is doing a 50% off annaul subscriptions sale right now? Paid subscriptions help stabilize my career in culture writing full-time, but all readers — paid & not — are appreciated. Feel free to follow me on Instagram or Letterboxd (for free!). Thank you for reading!

Didn’t you say you were taking the week off?

These are the Lunar Asparagus by Max Ernst that you can go see at the MOMA if you’re in New York. My brother and his fiancée swung by over his spring break, and I was lucky enough to take them to MOMA — their first time, my second after going just once the summer I moved east.¹

I’ve spent the past week doing all the things you should do during a spring break staycation: sleeping in, eating pasta, seeing friends, loving art. I will be back properly on Wednesday and Sunday (and so on) of this week to talk about all sorts of things: The Talented Mr. Ripley (reread diary forthcoming), James Gray, more Hades (leave me alone!), classical music, and so on.

That said, it seemed like everyone liked chatting about what they’d be watching, listening to, reading, and so on when we did this a month ago, and in an effort to build out the Fran Magazine community ahead of Book Club May (April 3rd announcement), I want to open the floor for comments and recs and suggestions and musings. Go nuts! Have fun! Even if you didn’t have a week off when the weather is suddenly nice, pretend like you had a week off when the weather was suddenly nice. See you Wednesday!

1. I’ve been there more frequently times for films — I’ve seen, somewhat fittingly, Jackass Forever and The Insider, and maybe something else I’m forgetting — but that’s a different thing.