The Ys Have It

  From How to Live with a Neurotic Dog , by Stephen Baker, with wonderful cartoons by Eric Gurney (Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1960) Today’s post i...

Beautiful Day Walking east on 79th from Fifth Avenue, June 2024 Tonight’s post is from a description of “Ray Stark, the legendary producer” ...

Only because I have thought of this time and again for the past two months. From the website of the National Park Service, all of it copied ...

London, September 2024. Years ago when a good friend of mine was very down and blue, she took up Jonathan Coe. She read several of his books...

Today’s post is from a short post by reporter Emily Cochrane during the New York Times  live video stream of the memorial service for Jimmy ...

Always a welcoming sight, although, to accommodate all the books, one really needs this shelving system to be multiplied by ten. Nothing to ...

On view at the Boulder Public Library. I realize, five readers of mine, that you have been deprived of the quarter-finals, semi-finals, and ...

A letter of acceptance from Marian Elina-Blanche Anderson . It was featured in a group of five letters marking a past   Women ’s History M o...

Paul Resika, Tower and Moon , 2009–10. Oil on canvas, 72 x 60 inches.   Today’s word is from Season 3, Episode 3 of the Hulu streaming serie...

From Anand Giridharadas ’  New York Times   review of REVENGE OF THE TIPPING POINT: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Eng...