David Means

1 month ago | earlybirdbooks.com | Orrin Grey |Jonathan Starr |Booker T. Washington |David Means

Tara Westover was raised in isolation and homeschooled by her survivalist Mormon parents in Buck’s Peak, Idaho. At the age of 17, with no formal education, she started college at Brigham Young University, eventually studying abroad and completing a PhD in history from Cambridge.

Jan 15, 2024 | newyorker.com | David Means

Does it matter that a cat story resides solely in the body of a cat, remaining neutral as the creature moves through the landscape, operating on pure instinct, and, no matter what, embodying the projected will of the human? There is little else that the cat can do. All one can do is attempt to watch the animal as it performs its actions, with time suspended and meaningless.

Mar 26, 2023 | nytimes.com | David Means

For a few years, I’ve been trying to write a story about a cat. A.I. will not be able to write this, partly because the story is still inside my imagination and on a few rough pages that were originally drafted in Boston, on sheets of notebook paper, as I sat in my daughter’s apartment on a hot summer day.