Time to apply for the Junior Fellowship at First Things . As I wrote last year , here are
Some of the Things You Might Do As a First Things Junior Fellow (Not All in One Week):
Monday, 3 pm: First Things editorial meeting; 8 pm: $15 tickets for Wagner’s Die Walküre at the Metropolitan Opera
Tuesday: Read the New York Review of Books , Times Literary Supplement , Claremont Review of Books , and Books and Culture . (And take out the recycling at home.)
Wednesday: Read manuscript submissions and write a daily article or a post for the blog .
Thursday, 2:30 pm: Edit article or blog post with Jody Bottum; 8:00 pm: Performance of David Ives’ adaptation of Mark Twain’s Is He Dead? at the Lyceum Theater near Times Square
Friday, 11 am: Email about new and upcoming books with the editor of Books and Culture .
Saturday, 7 pm: Night prayer, drinks, and dinner with Richard John Neuhaus, Fr. Joseph Koterski, and Avery Cardinal Dulles
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