Bookseller, baker, ricotta-cheese maker. I'm a reader, a wannabe writer, have a mothballed J.D., and am little bit crazy. These are the days of my lives.
Posted in adventures in retail, book snob, books, links, writing on May 31st, 2010
The Sunday Times Book Review has an article about a new book– a transcription, really, and I’ve read the advance copy, it’s well worth the read– of an interview between the late, great David Foster Wallace and the Rolling Stone reporter and writer David Lipsky as Wallace is doing his book tour after Infinite Jest […]
Posted in writing on May 20th, 2010
So… that wannabe writer thing? I’ve been working (quietly, shh, because even putting them here on the blog counts as publication) on some actual, real-live original fiction. And I’ve finally gotten the ovaries to start sending them out to people for rejection consideration for real, live publication.
I do have a few people I can send […]
The works, I say to the calm-faced attendant, the one who with clear, short-handed motions and just a few words– put it in neutral, no foot on the brakes– gets me completely aligned.
It reminds me somehow of the way that vertebrae finally popped when I did yoga this morning.
The car moves forward on its own. […]
Posted in good things, links, sparkly, writing on Sep 27th, 2009
Here’s a piece in the NYT about the seltzer deliveryman of Brooklyn, who fell and hurt himself, depriving two hundred customers of actual hand-pushed seltzer, complete in antique seltzer containers. And this is why I love the NYT, even when sometimes their slip in editorial standards sends me, weeping and clicking, to the Guardian.co.uk site. […]
Posted in Better Half, Deep Thoughts, apocalypse, bipolar, friends, good things, lawyer, links, meta, writing on Aug 17th, 2009
This is a movie review– of sorts. It’s also somewhat surreal– Magritte’s Treachery of Images, except instead of this not being a blog post or a movie review, ceci n’est pas ma vie, my life. At least it’s not the life that I want.
I’ve got about five drafts of this post started, all puttering out. Much […]
There’s a lovely, “This-American-Life-Esque” piece in today’s NYT Dining Section about the gyro and who invented the process for manufacturing gyro cones en masse. Well-written, funny, sad at the end, and now all I want is mystery meat on a pita with yogurt sauce.
Posted in Deep Thoughts, books, crank, links, nerd, writing on Jan 1st, 2009
There’s an interesting article in the New York Times about the effect of online book sales on small bookstores– especially the effect of resales on authors and stores.
I admit that I have bought my fair share of new books from Amazon, or gone to a box store like Borders or Barnes and Noble. I don’t […]
Posted in books, cooking, good things, links, writing on Nov 9th, 2008
The NYT’s Dining section had an article about Simon Hopkinson, the British chef and cookbook author who wrote “Roast Chicken and Other Stories,” “Second Helpings of Roast Chicken,” and “Week In, Week Out,” (a collection of newspaper essays only available in Britain, but which can be sent here from the British Amazon arm).
The recipes are fairly […]
The article, in the end, is about quicker-cooking old-fashioned things like homemade chicken soup, but Alex Whitchel’s article from last week in the NYT has a beautiful prologue about the sounds of cooking that is just a wonderful description of the anticipation that the sounds of cooking brings.
In this week’s New Yorker, unrepentant democrat David Sedaris has a scathing and scatalogical take on the undecided voters in the upcoming election.