You guys. YOU GUYS. Here’s the story. Her new novel, “Go Set a Watchman” is one she wrote in the 50s and put aside. Wow.
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The traditional publishing industry is located in one of the most liberal cities in America. On the whole its employees skew left. Still, while homosexuality has been explored in YA novels for quite some time, it still says something that the cover for my friend Sarah McCarry’s About a Girl felt like something new. The […]
Happy fiftieth birthday to Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, which was originally published in 1964. To celebrate, Penguin has a new paperback edition plus a golden ticket sweepstakes. It’s hard to imagine a book that was more influential for me than Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and all of Roald Dahl’s books for that matter, […]
Like many people I know, I have been seriously obsessed with the documentary Jiro Dreams of Sushi, which is available for streaming on Netflix and Amazon. Jiro Ono has been making sushi for over 70 years. His restaurant, a humble space that is literally located in a subway station, has been awarded three Michelin stars. […]
Talking about the weather is almost by definition the height of banality. When you have absolutely nothing else to talk about with someone, well, at least there’s the weather. You can chitchat about how nice it is or how horrible or gosh I hear we’re going to get some snow tomorrow. And yet the weather […]
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