I was looking for some inspiration for this column when a quiet ding announced Anthony Drew’s arrival at the top of my inbox. A fellow editor at COLE, he’d been reading a book of essays over the weekend and came across Joan Didion’s 1977 essay Holy Water, in which she discusses her fascination with water.While Didion’s writing was brilliant, what stuck out to me more was her obsession with the movement and management of water.“As it happens my own reverence for water has always taken the form of this constant meditation upon where the water is, of an obsessive interest
