"Friends have asked what I will be doing; I have told them, frankly: : reading T.C. Boyle’s excellent “World’s End,” a novel of the Hudson Valley, while enjoying a couple fingers of whiskey from that very same region."

Occupy New Year’s Eve with a Book” (Page Views)

I’ve always been more into New Year’s Day. Last year I finally made it to the Poetry Project’s annual marathon reading, which is so welcoming and cathartic. My own ritual is to start a new notebook (a Moleskine, for many years now) on January first.