Television news tends to hide the credits for stories. Take this little report from Coney Island: Although the story is dominated by the so-called “talent,” the story was pitched, shot, and structured by Sonia Narang, who has a year-long fellowship at NBC. She produced it. (If you want to hear funny stories about your favorite [...]
A story in today’s New York Times by Robin Pogrebin describes the recent travails and planned revival of a house in Brooklyn. The house is called the Broken Angel, a distinctive building for the modifications and additional construction created by Arthur Wood, the owner and resident. After an October fire, the building was deemed structurally [...]
Last April, Chelsea Piers. Pretty fun, and there was this contraption that teed up balls from the floor. That’s my friend Soon.
For a long time, when people asked me where I go, or went, to college, my first response was “New Hampshire,” or even, “New England.” Then they would slowly zero in: which school, or which town, until: Dartmouth. I abandoned that initial answer too long after I had started getting the question. While I thought [...]
Dear Reader, I am sorry that I have not posted here for weeks–weeks! It’s not been for lack of content or interest, but merely lack of time and energy. I have been trying to sort out the tangled decision about where to go in the next stage of life. I have made a handful of [...]
This weekend, I gave a friend Just Enough Liebling, a collection of New Yorker articles by A.J. (Joe) Liebling. In my inscription: From one New Yorker reader to another, a collection of one of its legendary writers. I’ve only read a little bit of Liebling, certainly not enough. For example, there’s the one about how [...]
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