Thanks to Reader Gretchen, I have more Bob Uecker-iana than some Brewers fans: multiple bobbles, a Uecker Magic 8 Ball, and an old-school alarm clock that ticks so loudly I had to banish it from …
“I wrote 63 songs this year. They’re all about Jeter.” Just kidding. The game we love, the players we hate, and more.
From Norman Mailer to Wendy Pepper — everything on film, TV, books, music, and snacks (shut up, raisins), plus the Girls’ Bike Club.
Helping public schools, winning prizes, sending a crazy lady in a tomato costume out in public.
Monologues, travelogues, fiction, and fart humor. And hens. Don’t forget the hens.
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I found it while researching a murder (…this is a sentence I have more frequent use for than most), the true story of a neighborhood legend from my childhood. I grew up in a leafy, sleepy-summered New Jersey town the Manhattan rich used to use as a refuge from various epidemics, in a house with odd-lot closets and secret stairs, and in the eighties, I spent a lot of non-homework time IN the odd-lot closets, reading stories in which secret stairs figured heavily – secrets of all sorts, really, fortunes and poltergeists and seven-year-olds who were really seventeen. I was a weird kid in a town with inattentive librarians, which you know already, but I mention it again to explain how we got here.
(David Denby on Norman Mailer’s wartime experiences)
Hey, folks. Just a quick periodic round-up of stuff I’ve gotten up to of late…I guess I could use Linktree but I’m still paying for hosting for TN, so: …
The bond between sovereign and subjects is a strange and mostly unknowable thing. A nation’s life becomes a person’s, and then the string must break. Sam Knight on Operation London Bridge
Monarchies want abolishing, …
Once upon a time, in the world before Tomato Nation, I worked in an antiquarian bookshop in Chelsea. I made seven dollars an hour. I learned how to “spine up” a shelf, tweaking the books …
Sarahs Bunting past.
I was 28, no greys. I had two
cats, one grey. I lived, for a moment, in a loft in Toronto I was subletting
from a college friend. The cats have gone. They are also …
Listen to my presentation from the 2018 Baseball In Literature And Culture conference!
