The Jiffy

For years I've wanted The Jiffy to be more than a newsletter. The book club is the first time we're trying it: a season-long reading experience built around a single book, with the kind of companion content I'd want as a reader. Essays. Field trips. A short audio feed delivered to your podcast app. A conversation with the author.

We're starting with a book that I think a lot of Jiffy readers are going to love. Victoria Johnson's Glorious Country is a biography of Frederic Church that doubles as a portrait of the country he painted. It's about ambition, geography, and how a single artist taught Americans to see the landscape they were standing on.

The plan is to read it together, slowly, between May 5 and June 15. I'll send a few extra issues. You'll get a private audio feed with six short produced segments. There's a Jaunt itinerary anchored at Olana. And you'll hear my conversation with Victoria Johnson the week after publication.

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