Cal Morgan
@calmorgan
Worshipful Company of Book Folk 📚 Senior Literary Agent, Enliven Endeavors ✨ “Please read.”
Crate & Barrel just texted me to say, “There’s still so much summer left to enjoy.” We’re on day 6
Amazing to be reminded that, in the 1960s and early 70s, the humble CT suburb where I grew up was home to this small midmod gem, long since vanished
Three modern story-songs that drip with charm: “Kathy: A Story of Love, Lust, and the Country” by Kate Stephenson youtu.be/iJNS0vje_A4?... “White Trash Romance” by Karen Jonas youtu.be/N3bkgEUPlFc?... “Two Horses” by Black Country, New Road youtu.be/oX_yA8aVwIA?...
Every year I think the same thing: the greatest moment in Oscar history will be when they announce a winner WHO WASN’T EVEN NOMINATED
Left: Bingham Hall, Yale University, 1928 (Walter B. Chambers, architect) Right: Sleeping Giant Observation Tower, Hamden, CT, 1935 (Russell T. Barker, architect)
Very fine unheralded filmmaking happening in Wales and Cornwall these days
On a related note, if anyone in midcentury Hollywood ever needed a Cary Grant impersonator who was also a Rock Hudson impersonator, they could have hired (this photo of) Ray Anthony
This is not books This is not music or art This is just tomatoes Very tomatoes
Merry Christmas from the biggest present my father ever wrapped (kitty for size)
(l) Summer Evening, Edward Hopper (1947) (r) Slightly Drunk, Jing Zhiyong (2021)
The news: I’m thrilled to be joining the brilliant Annie DeWitt and her amazing team @ Enliven, a new agency devoted to visionary writing. I’m looking to work with brave voices, epic storytellers, writers exploring across the borders of tradition. Let’s go www.enlivenendeavors.com/home
Currently reeling from this Martin Guitar paperwork featuring Irvin, the original @newyorker.com display font
DON DRAPER At the center, the Lincoln logo LINCOLN EXEC Fine DON DRAPER Through the logo, a window onto the future: clear sailing on a summer day LINCOLN EXEC Nice DON DRAPER And for the copy, we’re thinking— LINCOLN EXEC (expectant) DON DRAPER (jazz hands) Hazlitt
Jess Walter last night, with Amor Towles at The Center for Fiction. America still makes great novelists. Go get So Far Gone, no matter how far you have to go.