Books Archive |
Lunch at the Shop: The Art and Practice of the Midday Meal - A reader threatened me: “One more cookbook, and I’m outta here.” Dude, don’t go. The concept of “Lunch at the Shop: The Art and Practice of the Midday Meal” --- making lunch
Lush Life - So, it's 4 AM when Eric Cash gets held up at gunpoint. Pitch black. No headlights illuminating the street. Not shadows, even. A shot is fired. Eric's
M. C. Escher Pop-Ups - Twenty years from now, someone will make a breakthrough in the arts, technology or design, and remark, “Well, when I was a kid, there was this book….” He or she
M.C. Escher - SUPPORTING BUTLER: You can become a patron of this site, and automatically donate any amount you please — starting with $1 — each month. The service that enables this is
Madam: The Biography of Polly Adler, Icon of the Jazz Age - When I met Debby Applegate, who had graduated summa cum laude from Amherst and collected a Ph.D. in American Studies at Yale, it was clear she was super smart. Not
Maeve Kinkead: A Dangling House - Maeve Kinkead was in my class at a small New England boarding school. If I didn’t really know her there, it was because I was awestruck and --- rare for
Maggie Smith: Good Bones - In 2015 Maggie Smith sat in a Starbucks in Bexley, Ohio, and wrote a poem on a legal pad. She didn’t think “Good Bones” was her best poem, but she
Magical Journey: An Apprenticeship in Contentment - Katrina Kenison is a writer with a following. That she was previously unknown to me is a function of the kind of writer she is and the kind of following
Maisie Dobbs - GUEST BUTLER NORA LEVINE: The e-mail was direct: “Have you met Maisie Dobbs, created by Jacqueline Winspear? She's an impressive character.” I had not. I replied with a question about Maisie. Two mails later,
Man with a Blue Scarf: On Sitting for a Portrait by Lucian Freud - Guest Butler Jane Chafin is director of the Offramp Gallery in Pasadena, California. A former painter, she has worked as a registrar at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery and written
Man’s Search for Meaning - Hitler had already occupied Austria when Viktor Frankl, a young Viennese psychiatrist and writer, learned that the United States had approved his request to immigrate. His
Manuka Honey - Manuka honey comes from New Zealand, where it’s made by bees that feed on the nectar of the manuka tree. Their honey is dark and thick. Its aroma has been
Marc Lagrange/Helmut Newton - 1987. Tina Brown was trying to lure me to join her at Vanity Fair. I wanted to jump across the table and hug her, but I struggled to play
Marcella Hazan: Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking - The death of Marcella Hazan, at 89, produced tributes from everyone of importance in Food World. And for the best possible reason: She came first. Until Hazan published her instantly classic
Margaret Renkl: Life is hard. The world is beautiful. And most people are good. - Our 21-year-old daughter doesn’t read the news, but she knows who the good people are and what the bad people want to do to the good people, and she’s seen
Maria Semple: Today Will Be Different - Today will be different. Today I will be present. Today, anyone I’m speaking to, I will look them in the eye and listen deeply. Today I’ll play a board game
Marie Kondo: The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing - It was inevitable. Her book has sold 8.5 million copies. It's in 40 languages. And now she has an 8-episode show on Netflix: "Tidying Up with Marie Kondo." It's tender.
Mark Hampton: An American Decorator - Talk about being born for the job! When Mark Hampton was wearing shoes, his feet were exactly 12 inches long --- he could pace off a room without a tape
Married Sex: A Love Story - THE AMAZING, UNEXPECTED REVIEW IN THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW It begins: “Kornbluth’s debut novel, about a happy marriage interrupted by a ménage à trois, could easily have coasted on
Married Sex: Interim Report #1 - “Married Sex” has been, as they used to say, “years in the making,” and now, on August 25, it will finally be published. My marketing plan for it is simple:
