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st vincent’s paramedics: heroes!
I'm Facebook-friends with one of the St. Vincent's paramedics who saved my life back in 1993. (The story is here.) [...]
bootleg: a goodreads review
Bootleg: Murder, Moonshine, and the Lawless Years of Prohibition by Karen Blumenthal My rating: 4 of 5 stars All the thinky-thoughts [...]
the sad, short life of Tom Seidmann-Freud
This week's Tablet magazine column is about the Art Nouveau children's book illustrator Tom Seidmann-Freud. Her work was [...]
shit book reviewers say
You are probably so sick of the Shit Whatevers Say meme. And you've probably already seen this video by Melville [...]
what i’ll be wearing at my desk tomorrow
Actually this is what I wear every day to write. In my bedroom. With my cat on me.
that damn mob of scribbling parents
Why I'm shutting up about my kids: THE COLUMN. (Bonus perspective from Shalom Auslander, Ayelet Waldman, Etgar Keret, Judith Newman, Peggy Orenstein and [...]