galaxy brain kidney take

Even for a saint like me who is off Twitter, the kidney article could not be denied its due. Last Thursday morning my writing group started group-texting about it -- if you've read the article, you know this is distressingly meta -- and I realized I could hold it off no longer.

I'm not going to summarize it or summarize coverage of it. We're all on the same page here. It's day 7 post-kidney. If you are not caught up, here is the article and here is Katy Waldman's close reading of "The Kindest," and here is in case you don't have it memorized.