David Duchovny’s Glorious Things

Wag Supremo David Duchovny is a marvel—acting, directing, songwriting, chatting about Harold Bloom and literary theory at Café des Artistes—we wonder when he works in a nap. That is likely what we were doing when he cranked out his new novella, The Reservoir. It’s a New Yorky tale of a banker in quarantine, who spies a light flashing in an apartment window across Central Park, and deciphers that it’s a distress signal, possibly from the woman of his dreams! He’ll need to cross the no-man’s land between the Upper West Side and Fifth Avenue to save her, and himself. Bump it to the top of your summer reading list immediately. We must have 3 creative inspirations from this dashing smarty, whose big heart and bigger brain have delighted us since Collegiate (when you had to sprint past the Reservoir in order not to get mugged on the way to school).

1. Yes by Shekinah Glory Ministry. The most affirmative, moving declaration of love and positivity this half-Jew has ever heard. Listen to it. You’ll come away saying everything is yes.

2. Madness, Rack, and Honey by Mary Ruefle. Lectures and meditations by a brilliant teacher. I read passages and come away stunned by her insight and invariably go back to the sources she’s discussing and enter new inspiring dimensions yet again.

3. Audm. It’s an app on my phone where I can listen to the best articles in magazines I would never come across if I relied on subscriptions. I pretty much hate my phone, but I come away from Audm thinking that’s a movie or that’s a character. Both the anger and interest engendered by listening to great journalism can be inspiring.