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2007 bookshelf

NPR’s Bryant Park Project invited me to talk about some of the books I enjoyed last year.

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No place like (staying) home for the holidays

Happy Holidays, everyone. I hope you’re keeping warm, and all is merry and bright. Max and I are staying in the city for the season, and I’ve been posting photos of what we’ve been doing and seeing — tea at The Four Seasons, indoor fireworks at Grand Central Station on Christmas Eve, the cats — at Flickr. I’ll put new . . .

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