I’m out of town for a few days; while I’m gone, I’ll be finishing Posner’s Case Closed, and starting I Love You, Beth Cooper and that book on the TV-news wars Kim lent me months …

Hi Sars,
It’s really kind of embarrassing that I have to ask this question — I go to an Ivy League university and while browsing the library page today I noticed the following:
“On this day… …

Sarah, I really need a third-party opinion.
BF and I have been dating for nearly four years, and we have a very loving and committed relationship. Unfortunately, we also have very, very differing views about …

John Grisham’s fiction isn’t my thing — the one novel I read twenty years ago was plenty — but I read good reviews of The Innocent Man, his foray into non-fiction/true crime, and I had …

For those of you not familiar, “FMK” stands for “Fuck, Marry, Kill”; for those of you not familiar with that, it’s like Death Is Not An Option, but with another element added. Like DINAO, you …

Reader Alexis had this to add re: the Vine letter of March 4:
 

The case of “hard to underestimate” that you discussed in The Vine recently was investigated on the linguistics blog Language Log in 2004: …

Hi Sarah,
Your readers have done such a good job of finding books and music I thought I’d give you all a shot at this one. My sister and I are looking for a children’s book …

…that happened. (tm State And Main)

The genius behind “Wake Up Cat” is back with “Let Me In.” Miss Alli had it on in the bullpen, and I heard that distinctive “mrow” and without even looking up asked her, “‘Wake Up …

I’m knee-deep in old Vine letters, porting them over from the previous system. I know, I know. Anyway, the formatting is not going to win any beauty contests, but at least they’ll have made it …