If you read only one thing about my memoir, #PermanentRecord, make it the cover story in this month's New York Review of Books. It is an extraordinary piece. @nybooks nybooks.com/articles/2019/…
With Permanent Record suddenly considered among the year's best books, I again must thank the many who made it possible, from those mentioned in the text and acknowledgements to the countless hidden hands behind every timeless story.
I had set out merely to write a book, but when the manuscript was completed, it had become more—a work of literature. It took the better part of my year, drafting from night to noon, for that picture to come into focus. But at the outset, I was hardly an author.
The book's literary quality owes especially to my good friend Joshua Cohen, the great contemporary novelist, who taught me what it means to write. Across a hundred evenings, he completed an education that the state never could. If I was the heart of our work, he was the soul. 
Finally, I owe gratitude to each of you, the readers. It is you, the free minds of every country, that give me hope for the future. I love you, my faraway friends.
Stay free.
Stay free.
For those who haven't seen this portrait of Josh before, it's because I took it! I did my closest advisor and dear, dear friend, @BenWizner at the same sitting, seen below. Credit for these, too, is owed to another: @LsJourneys, because she's the one who taught me photography.
