Some snapshots from Taylor’s 2025 Lincoln Center season last November. Moments from Gala night, moments caught backstage, a couple from the house, and a few of my favorite Polaroids.
Clearly, I’m not great at posting in the moment considering this was almost five months ago. But I figure better late than never.
Dance photos by @hisae_ai of me in @paultaylordance ’s Concertiana, Cascade, and Company B, respectively.
Whoops, it’s mid March, but here’s the stack of everything I read last year in 2025! I managed to read 26 books which is my annual goal for myself. I like that it averages as a book every two weeks; it feels fairly doable even for a slow, if avid, reader like myself. But if we’re being honest, it’s only because a lot of these books are quite slim (Thank you, Solvej Balle).
As a whole, last year was a bit of a slog for me, reading-wise. I enjoyed many of the books, but they started to blend together. My goal for this year is to try and vary my choices more so it’s not so much “contemporary literary fiction.” We’ll see.
Also, for the first time, I did some re-reading last year. It’s not something I usually do because I get distracted by all the things I haven’t read, but last year I allowed myself to revisit a few: I did Never Let Me Go with a book club (still didn’t love it, even over a decade later), and Kafka on the Shore with some friends, which was lovely. Murakami holds a special place for me.
Standouts from the year include The Last Samurai, Bel Canto, On the Calculation of Volume series, Salvage the Bones, Kafka on the Shore, The Swimming-Pool Library, Heavy, All Fours, Disgrace, Perfection, and Wolf Hall.
Here’s the full list in the order I read them:
The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt
The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson
The Morning Star by Karl Ove Knausgaard
Orbital by Samantha Harvey
You Dreamed of Empires by Álvaro Enrigue
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Memorial by Bryan Washington
Stay True by Hua Hsu
The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
On the Calculation of Volume I by Salvej Balle
On the Calculation of Volume II by Salvej Balle
A Boy’s Own Story by Edmund White
My Friends by Hisham Matar
Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (reread)
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami (reread)
The Swimming-Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst
Heavy by Kiese Laymon
Flashlight by Susan Choi
All Fours by Miranda July
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
On the Calculation of Volume III by Solvej Balle
Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
I wish I could show these pictures to the boy who moved to NYC 15 years ago. Lincoln Center was his college campus, and the nexus of so many of his dreams. He wouldn’t believe me, and honestly, I still can’t believe it either ❤️
These are the books that kept me company in 2024. Though not my most productive year of reading, I’m still proud I managed to explore 25 new worlds. Of them all, there are two that I know will stay close to my heart for years to come: “The Line of Beauty” by Alan Hollinghurst, and “The Bee Sting” by Paul Murray.
Full list below!
The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
The Master by Colm Tóibín
The Book of Goose by Yiyun Li
Surviving Autocracy by Masha Gessen
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters
The Prophets by Robert Jones Jr.
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
Day by Michael Cunningham
Rent Boy by Gary Indiana
Blackouts by Justin Torres
How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu
Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck
The Sellout by Paul Beatty
In Memoriam by Alice Winn
In Ascension by Martin MacInnes
Tenth of December by George Saunders
Martyr! By Kaveh Akbar
The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
James by Percival Everett
The Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante
Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh
The Maniac by Benjamín Labatut
The Friend by Sigrid Nunez
#books #bookhaul #bookstagram
It’s always special dancing with @madho4 , but getting to do so in Lauren’s “Chaconne in Winter” is particularly magical. Tonight’s the last chance this season to catch this duet with live music from @timeforthree !
.
📸 by @canigetawhitney of @laurenlovette ’s “Chaconne in Winter” with costumes by @markericdesign at Lincoln Center.
.
#dance #moderndance #modern #lincolncenter #nyc #newyork #paultaylordancecompany #ptdc #winter #snowflakes #chaconne #laurenlovette
Not Gay as in happy, but Queer as in F*ck Tr*mp. Remember your joy is your greatest protest.
Scenes from Taylor’s 2024 Gala at Lincoln Center.
.
.
.
#gay #queer #taylor #dance #lincolncenter #gala
