[APPLAUSE]
I think that one of the weirdest things about having this
as a job is that it's like every so often somebody tries
really hard to make you cry--
[LAUGHTER]
--and then you have to give a reading.
[LAUGHTER]
Yeah.
It did.
It did work.
Thank you, TC.
That was beautiful.
There was a time in 2016 when TC sent me
an email about my first book, where basically I
think he said, "This was good.
I'm glad to share the world with you."
And I was like, "Oh my God."
I can't believe that this person whose work I so admire
knows anything about me.
Hi, everyone.
Thank you.
Thank you for being here.
Thank you to Tim and Anne so much for making this possible,
and for introducing us,
those of us who don't already know, to HD and Bryher.
Thank you to Tyler for, I don't know,
doing all of the shepherding of the space that you do.
Thank you to Paola for answering my thousand emails,
and to Bruno for making my PowerPoint possible, which
I will introduce the rest of you to soon.
And yeah, thank you to everybody else who
made this happen, all of the invisible labor that
always goes into making these kinds of things happen.
Yeah.