Archive for April 2006

To Add to the Things-I-Didn’t-Know-I-Wanted-Until-Someone-Made-Them-Up List

Thursday, April 20, 2006

This morning, on the F train, I’m reading Charles D’Ambrosio’s wonderful essay about his pink house in Portland, Oregon, in the Times House & Home section, enjoying accounts of “strange living” among hot plates and glue traps, when I stumble headlong into the reason I’m on this earth.
an all-girl Bee Gees cover band
It seems […]

Muriel Spark, 1918-2006

Monday, April 17, 2006

From A Far Cry from Kensington, here are Mrs. Hawkin’s reflections upon the upper and the ordinary classes:
I will say, now, that I learned a lot about upper class habits while I was with Mackintosh & Tooley. In the end I concluded that it was better to belong to the ordinary class. For the upper […]

Review of Fever

Sunday, April 9, 2006

Here’s a link to my review in Newsday of the new Peggy Lee biography by Peter Richmond.