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May 26, 2008

Hungry Minds

OUR LOCAL CORRESPONDENTS about the soup kitchen at the Church of the Holy Apostles in Chelsea. The Church of the Holy Apostles, at the corner of Twenty-Eighth Street and Ninth Avenue in Manhattan, is a church only two-sevenths of the time. The other five-sevenths—every weekday…
December 25, 2006

Reunions

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September 04, 2006

Deerfield in the Desert

OUR FAR-FLUNG CORRESPONDENTS about King Abdullah's plans to build a boarding school in Jordan modeled on Deerfield Academy in Massachusetts, where he was a student… Abdullah was the first Arab student at Deerfield. He arrived in 1977, for tenth grade. He has often said that his years there were…
August 30, 2004

Cannonball!

Talk story about cannonball dives and the lack of diving boards at community pools. Neddy Merrill, the hero of John Cheever’s story “The Swimmer,” would have been troubled by aquatic developments over the past 20 years. The American pool has suffered a gradual decline: thanks to concerns about safety and…
August 18, 2003

The Family Issue

Signed Comment about families and about The New Yorker's Family issue... "We are fam-ilee," the great old Sister Sledge single went. Who doesn't want to be fam-ilee? There is mine and yours and the Kennedys,the Cosbys, the Cabbots, Bushes, bin Ladens... Kallikaks, the Windors, Oliver Wendal Holmes…
November 18, 1996

THE FALL OF FUN

LIFE AND LETTERS lamenting the end of fun, particularly as experienced in the passionate lifestyle of New York mid-century literary culture. While drinking and flirting at a book party, the author feels a pang of regret. In hia tribe -- the media, literary, journalism, and arts crowd -- work dominates one's…
December 25, 1995

Dedicated Lines

Signed Talk story about book dedications. Given the brevity of the typical book dedication, one might think that, after all the imaging and brainwork that goes into the manuscript, coming up with a little greeting wouldn't be too hard. How tough could it have been for Fitzgerald to put "Once…
May 30, 1994

[Books]

[Books]
March 08, 1993

THE DARK AT THE TOP OF THE STAIRS

PERSONAL HISTORY about writer's fear of the dark, which was eventually banished by the Blitz of the Second World War. He remembers this as a historical fact, but the terror itself faded long ago and there are times now when he feels this disappearance as a loss, as some vividness…
November 18, 1991

Fly on the Wall

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