The Sunday Digest 162
"Well I'm standing all alone by the river of my home."
Welcome to The Sunday Digest — a free Sunday newsletter featuring long (and some short) reads, original columns, things I’ve saved over the last week, relaxing playlists, episodes releases, exclusive product drops, and more. Yes, you can reply to this email. I’d love to hear from you.
Sunday Read: A Home That Proves You Can Never Have Too Many Books
by Alexa Brazilian for T Magazine with photographs by Annie Schlechter
On Friday morning, I went to the Dallas Museum of Art for the first time. While we were walking one of the exhibits, someone I was with asked me, “What would your ideal office be?” My initial reaction was, “I think I just want stacks of books.”
In practice, my current home office does have a few stacks of books on both the desk and surrounding it. There’s something comforting to me about seeing other people’s work while I work, but I also just think it’s undeniably cozy.
I began thinking about this more and more when the following tweet came across my timeline last night:
The reasons it annoyed me were numerous: the possibility of the entire photo being AI, the lack of any actual character, and the fact that it’s all centered around watching a movie rather than, well, anything else. I countered with Keith McNally’s living room that’s filled with stacks of books, but we’ll see who wins out in the end.
This week’s read is about the photos as much as it is about the words. So with that in mind, here’s an excerpt:
Then there are the books, which not even the wood-paneled living room’s floor-to-ceiling shelves can contain. Tall, neat piles are stacked everywhere: volumes on South American art, on the history of interior design, on British eccentrics, on American Jazz Age writers, on the Ballets Russes. In the Abstract Expressionism section, Tarantino extracts, almost without looking, a thick book on Sonia Delaunay. “She did one of my favorite paintings, ‘Yellow Balloons,’” he says, pointing to a framed lithograph of the work on the wall. Between the pages are old magazine and newspaper clippings he’s gathered about Delaunay, and glued to the inside front cover is a 3-by-5-inch card detailing where and when it was purchased. The cards in some of his books also note the number of times he’s read them.
Oh, to have the drive (and time) to read your favorite books numerous times in life. A luxury we can all strive for.
Read in full here.
Also Read:
Last week’s Sunday Confessions — Read here.
This week’s Postcards entry from North Carolina — Read here.
The Sunday Haiku
There my suitcase sits
and there it will sit until
probably Thursday.
New Episode › Retail Therapy 135: Big Jackets and Window Shopping
Team USA has released some new heat with Ralph Lauren ahead of the Winter Olympics, Outlander Magazine plagiarized my tweet about Barbour’s Wallace and Gromit collab, a look at some other fall/winter ‘25 outerwear, the fad of Marty Supreme jackets, the Jacob Elordi outfit that Barrett studied religiously, a recap of my Retail Therapy-coded trip to New York, wishlist items, and more.
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Things I Saved This Week
Silver Oak x Sunday Scaries
This past week, we launched a holiday collaboration with Silver Oak featuring boxes containing trademark phrases from the Sunday Scaries Instagram. After working with Silver Oak over the summer, it was an immediate “yes” when they approached me with this idea.
The bottles are currently sold out (thank you to everyone who purchased!) but you can see the entire collection here:
My Sunday To-Do List
I got home late from the Billy Strings concert last night so if I could find any moment to sneak in a power nap later today, I may hop on it.
It’s cold outside and our garden could use some straightening up after I’ve neglected it the past couple weeks.
House cleaning/organization is needed on the following fronts: clothing in my bedroom, floors in our living room, and general kitchen upkeep.
Later afternoon Detroit Lions game.
Get organized for work this week since I’d love to have such a productive week that I can effectively turn my brain off on Friday afternoon until 2026.
I hope your Sunday is exactly what you want it to be,
Will
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This article comes at the perfect time, truly making me wonder, much like your prior insights on cultivating personal havens, how you so beautifully achieve that perfect balance between comfortingly stacked books and a genuinly inspiring, livable space.