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Jun 30, 2026
He doesn’t have a cell phone or use the internet so it takes a week to get the answer but finally his publicist comes back with a politely breathless email confirming that,...
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Jun 22, 2026
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People say retirement communities in Florida are famously replete with venereal disease while others say no, our elderly do not do this, it is local apocrypha, there is no...
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Apr 20, 2026
Recommending Ross Barkan’s new book Colossus gets tricky because a lot of its strength is tied up in secrets (about the narrator) that’re doled out with a...
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Mar 27, 2026
A portrait of the artist in 1986 finds him at Woods Gramercy, an upscale restaurant in what the New York Times is calling “the year of the column in restaurant...
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Feb 26, 2026
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Michael Silverblatt, who died on Valentine’s Day, was the greatest literary influence of my life. He hosted Bookworm, a radio show out of KCRW Santa Monica, for 30...
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Feb 9, 2026
John Updike wrote and published constantly for 40 years. More than 70 titles. Thousands of articles. Mostly for The New Yorker. He sold millions of books and...
Jun 30, 2026He doesn’t have a cell phone or use the internet so it takes a week to get the answer but finally his publicist comes back with a politely breathless email confirming that,...
Jun 22, 20261. People say retirement communities in Florida are famously replete with venereal disease while others say no, our elderly do not do this, it is local apocrypha, there is no...
Apr 20, 2026Recommending Ross Barkan’s new book Colossus gets tricky because a lot of its strength is tied up in secrets (about the narrator) that’re doled out with a...
Mar 27, 2026A portrait of the artist in 1986 finds him at Woods Gramercy, an upscale restaurant in what the New York Times is calling “the year of the column in restaurant...
Feb 26, 20261. Michael Silverblatt, who died on Valentine’s Day, was the greatest literary influence of my life. He hosted Bookworm, a radio show out of KCRW Santa Monica, for 30...
Feb 9, 2026John Updike wrote and published constantly for 40 years. More than 70 titles. Thousands of articles. Mostly for The New Yorker. He sold millions of books and...