“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.
The Tomato Nation advice column addresses your questions on etiquette, grammar, romance, and pet misbehavior. Ask The Readers about books or fashion today!
Dear Nation,
Happy New Year! And welcome to your resolutions open thread: share/gut-check your resolutions; get/give support for everything from new workouts to budgeting to cookie recipes; second-guess your break-ups with Diet Coke and post-10-PM chocolate.
I’ll …
It isn’t put together very well, the story, but it has such affection for its characters, and it believes uncynically in what it’s trying to be, and it is trying to be a sad, beautiful …
I could use some help on this, please. It’s a short children’s story (I think I found it in an English/Literature textbook when in 7th grade) about this fairy/elf-type being whose job it is to …
The crime
Diane Downs, a postal worker, claimed a burly stranger had carjacked her and her three children, shooting one fatally and leaving the other two permanently impaired. At least she didn’t blame an African-American male…but …
I have a bit of an apartment problem. Our upstairs neighbors are stompy walkers. I seriously don’t understand how normal human beings can make this much noise when they walk. It’s not a normal “all …
Apparently, Arbitrage is getting some Oscars notice. True, said “notice” may consist primarily of its own PR team, but Couch Baron and I decided to check it out, mostly to see if yet another “high-finance …
Since we’re all still here, let’s track down some books, eh what?
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I’ve searched for this book on Google and came up with nothing. I read this book in middle school (late ’90s). It’s about a …
The Age of Innocence‘s 1934 iteration is an interesting prospect. The stymied romance between old-money lawyer Newland Archer (John Boles) and his bland but correct fiancée’s bohemian cousin Ellen Olenska (Irene Dunne), recently escaped from …
I’m a happily married mother of two young children; my husband and I are both in our mid-thirties. We don’t really disagree about much and we have a pretty great life. But even though we …
“Bruno was the consummate racketeer. Scarfo, on the other hand, was a gangster.”
The crime
It’s about the self-destruction the Philly mob, so: pick your felony. But implied also is a metaphorical crime, an affront to the …