“Fabulous things, #stars”, writes Louis #Glück in her best book, #Averno. After an atrocious week and the vaseline amnesia of Lindsay Graham and half of the American congress, that’s what I wanted––stars. I wanted the color black, the mystery of shadows, the memories of snow, the stories of friends. Eclectic consolations. I jotted a few of them down. #1. A friend, conducting research on bootleg mining in Pennsylvania (the scavenging of coal from abandoned commercial mines), d