Jul 13, 2012 | reading & recs
a little roundup of things that inspired me this week In addition to the loss of our beloved Eagle/Nest/Tree this week, I am mourning the death of Nora Ephron. For years she has been one of those famous people in the orbit of my life with whom I secretly pretend to...
Apr 14, 2012 | reading & recs
For a while on those late-summer drives, Stubblefield began believing he had fallen into an adventure. Near the top of Jorre Gap stood a lone log cabin, a tourist shop selling folkloric products, according to a hand-lettered sign by the road. Local honey, handmade...
Apr 12, 2012 | reading & recs
Tonight I had a delightful dinner with three friends I don’t see nearly often enough. And since we lingered long after the table had been cleared, night had fully fallen by the time I made my way to the car. I drove home in the dark, thinking about the late hour...
Feb 19, 2012 | reading & recs
He leaned against the stile, sheltered from the north by the thick wind-break of the gorse, and turned to face the sea. He saw the long line of the horizon, the bay sweeping out to the point where the lighthouse still blinked. Beyond it, to the south-east, the sky was...
Jan 15, 2012 | reading & recs
Bundled gloomily in his overcoat, cocooned in the back of the taxi, he thought of homes, remembering to the very beginning. Yorkshire and Radley Hill, where, an only child, he had been born and brought up. A large, solid, and comforting family home, filled with the...
Jan 5, 2012 | reading & recs
Schwartz, for his part, had vowed long ago not to become one of those pathetic ex-jocks who considered high school and college the best days of their lives. Life was long, unless you died, and he didn’t intend to spend the next sixty years talking about the last...
