CALLING ALL ANNE RICE STANS – Don’t miss the latest essay by my partner, Lisa Locascio Nighthawk. It’s an appreciation written after the death of the literary mother of the vampire renaissance—Anne Rice—interweaved with a searching meditation on the author’s loss of her own mother two years ago.
Readers of the last installment of Lightplay will know that I love using my moka pot to make stovetop espresso. But prolific and sonorously English YouTuber James Hoffman, in a delightfully deep dive into this impractically-steampunk coffee brewing method, corrects us: the liquid the moka pot makes is not, precisely, espresso.
I DESIGNED A LIT MAG – The Noyo Review is launching its second edition today (1/29), and you’re invited to a Zoom reading at 4pm PST. Even if you can’t make it, go check out the journal’s website (designed by yours truly) and read some of the exceptional pieces from the winter issue.
NEIL YOUNG, FELLOW ANTI-SPOTIFY TRAVELER – If you don’t want to leave Spotify for software reasons, leave it for moral ones: they’re bankrolling and standing by their high prophet of antivax dumbassery and death. You’ll be in good company.