After posting about the Dewey Donation System last week, I got an email from Logan Kleinwaks, the president of an organization called Book Wish Foundation. Logan asked,

Dear Sarah,
I just found Tomato Nation through an article …

I had read it before, 20 years ago. I’m glad I read it again, because the story has more resonance for a 35-year-old than for a 15-year-old — not that 15-year-olds won’t “get it,” but …

Apologies for the radio silence; I was in Florida on a family matter and haven’t had much of a chance to respond to various emails. Let’s just say that the phrase “stealth cat pee” figured …

I love Rob The Bouncer’s blog. I know I’ve recommended it here, but I will do so again, especially for New York-area people who will read his descriptions of the local Guido talent, choke a …

No, that is not a typo; evidently, this is how they spelled it. Perhaps Jim Jones wanted to evoke some sort of global-village, all-the-peoples-of-God’s-earth vibe — although what Jones wanted, or more accurately, when Jones …

It’s all even in the NL East. Unbelievable. Kay and Leiter can’t get their heads around it; I have to wonder what Darling and Hernandez have to say in the Mets booth. …Well, I know …

Premiere-week hell continues over at TWoP, but we’ve got a boatload of new content going up, including my latest Brothers & Sisters Classic; a weecap of the Chuck pilot, which I really liked a lot …

Idly reading a New York piece in which Mary Gordon and A.M. Homes interview each other about the experience of writing “mother books,” I found two fantastic quotations from Homes that made me sit up …

It’s a meetings-and-deadlines shit show at work for the next few days, so it’s bite-sized content until I can get my breath, but until then…
 
Maxed Out doesn’t break much ground as far as the documentary …

Seems like Edith Wharton is having a renaissance — the new biography is out (I’ve bought it, but haven’t dug in yet), and Domino had a piece on decorating in the Wharton style, which I …