At work I’m tied up researching states’ rules on nonresident partner withholding. “Sounds like a bowel problem,” a friend said yesterday. Honestly, at this point, it kind of feels like one, too. If you’re looking for diversion, I’m fresh out. But the Urbane Librarian, a friend who works at the main branch of the Queens Library out in Jamaica, points . . .
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I started reading Tod Goldberg‘s entertaining blog a few years ago. Later we both contributed to When I Was a Loser, an essay anthology now banned in one Rhode Island high school. (Goldberg’s contribution begins like this: “If the truth be known, I would have preferred not meeting Zsa Zsa Gabor at all versus meeting her while covered in the . . .
A new collection of Aldous Huxley’s letters includes about a fifth of the 10,000 that the Brave New World author wrote.
Lorrie Moore rejects Hillary Clinton’s claim to 35 years of experience, and dispels the rosy haze that’s fallen over the Bill Clinton years.