First: $15,280 as of this writing. That's 10% of our initial goal. In…about a day. I would tell you that I can't believe it, but I totally can. Outstanding work, guys.
Second: Thanks to all those …

Works of Edith Wharton does not contain all of Wharton's works — to fit the novels and the gardening/architecture stuff and the erotica and the letters and all the other "and"s into one volume obviously …

My piece for Monkey See on The Art of Making Money: The Story of a Master Counterfeiter, and the frustrations of being a currency nerd. The short version: it's a good book; I spend too …

Reader Amalie is putting together a collection of plays and one-acts for performances affiliated with the Berkeley, CA Public Library — including a few of the Famous Ghost Monologues. (Mary Charles McCormack, Mary Katherine Tomiczek, …

The hilarious cover art and dryly blunt title got my hopes up — in vain, alas. The writing is not awful, but Shelley Klein can't decide if she's going to report these cases straight, offer …

Typhus, the Brooklyn Dodgers of Flatbush, lesser Kennedys, seminal animé (say that five times fast), Argentine nutbars, and cod on the Cape — plus the N Cereal AA and the fall contest.These stories and more, …

Today the bat was still there.Someone had neatly laid a strip of toilet paper over it.It was dead, its position unchanged.I left it there and did not use the sink, not out of disgust or …

A few administrative notes before Lobster Roll Tour 2009 commences on Saturday…
As you may have deduced from the previous sentence, I'm going on vacation for a couple of weeks. I may have internet access; I …

I'd fooled myself into thinking I was a key part of the team, and that if there were cuts to be made they would come from the bottom.It's like that old line about being fast …

I like Keith Hernandez, but as a TV commentator, he has weaknesses.Leaving aside the "what's that betty doing in the dugout" incident, Hernandez tends to dwell more than I'd like on the kind of analysis …