Sofa whose cracks organize things instead of swallowing them

The writer Helene Hanff came to fame after publishing her years of correspondence with an antiquarian bookseller in London. To find just the books she wanted, it was easier to reach out across the Atlantic then to  [more...]

I took a run over to the house this morning with my agent, a kind of last chance decision time before calling the inspector and appraiser and getting the ball rolling. It’s that three-day period, that time where  [more...]

It’s been a while since I quoted the Style Invitational, but today’s contest was just too good to pass up. Entrants were asked to insert a product placement into biblical or other literary passages…  [more...]