Intermezzo bag

I've been reading the new Sally Rooney novel, Intermezzo. It's really beautiful. The perfect kind of novel to read slowly. She manages to write prose that's engaging at the micro and macro levels - beautiful sentences, as well as lovely long narrative arcs. I've been trying to read the dialog with an Irish accent in my head.It's a good book for reading in a park, and in Brooklyn we have a lot of nice little neighborhood parks. There's one right next to my apartment, public albeit under a confusing non-city ownership. Getting back from a long way of working on the internet, I want to throw that book in a bag and spend some time reading. But my bags are all the wrong size, too small or so large that the book lays horizontally at the bottom, which annoys me for some reason.Following along with CW&T's newsletter, Kevin Lynagh, Casey Neistat, and others, I've gained an appreciation of people who create their own tools in real life, not just on the computer.A sewing machine has unlocked a…