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Pocket Neighborhoods: Creating Small-Scale Community in a Large-Scale World - We now know that direct social interaction --- being in the same physical space as other people --- helps you live longer and better. We know that hyper-focus on events
Poetry Month - Poetry Month. About time. There’s never enough poetry in our lives. Do savor this smorgasbord of Head Butler poetry favorites. C.P Cavafy Cavafy was a journalist, then a clerk --- for
Poetry Month, Part 2: “And did you get what/You wanted from this life, even so?/I did./And what did you want?/To call myself beloved, to feel myself/Beloved on this earth.” - Was it only a week ago that I posted Part 1 of the Poetry Month special? So much happened. And one dominant event: the trial of Derek Chauvin. Watching that
Poker as Life: 101 Lessons from the World’s Greatest Game - Poker as Life: 101 Lessons from the World's Greatest Game Lee Robert
Poker as Life: 101 Lessons from the World’s Greatest Game - They don't correctly count the number of religious people in the United States because, for some reason, they don't consider poker a religion. But it is. College kids play for
Predator Nation: Corporate Criminals, Political Corruption, and the Hijacking of America - The last time we saw Charles Ferguson, he was beginning his remarks on the occasion of his Academy Award for Inside Job with these blunt words: "Forgive me, I must
Primates of Park Avenue - UPDATE: When I interviewed Wednesday Martin and enthusiastically recommended her book, I was under the impression that this Yale Ph.D. had written a closely reported memoir. Since its publication, questions
Prince Harry: Spare - “Spare” is the fastest-selling nonfiction book ever, with 1.43 million copies sold on its launch day. I wasn’t among those avid first day buyers. I wasn’t one of the 17 million
Prine on Prine: Interviews and Encounters with John Prine - John Prine was hanging out at an open mic in a Chicago club, more or less minding his own business, maybe heckling just a little, when someone turned and asked
Private Splendor: Great Families at Home - On the occasion of my first dinner with the woman who would become my first wife, a man answered the door. He wore a crisply tailored
Proust’s Overcoat: The True Story of One Man’s Passion for All Things Proust - If your home were on fire, what would you take? The photo albums? That’s so 1999. In 2010, you’d just grab a bag of memory chips and DVDs. Jewelry? Sure. But if
Provence A-Z - It was at a show of paintings by Cezanne and Pissarro at the Museum of Modern Art that I realized I wanted to spend my declining years in
Pure Heart, Enlightened Mind - Most mornings, as I start to work, I close my eyes and ask for help. Just that. No glance at the heavens. No formal prayer. Decades ago, I'd tried to
Putting It Together: How Stephen Sondheim and I Created “Sunday in the Park with George” - In 1982, when James Lapine met Stephen Sondheim, Sondheim was a theater icon. His credits included “West Side Story,” “Gypsy,” “Company,” "Follies,” “A Little Night Music,” “Pacific Overtures” and “Sweeney
Questions: How did we get here? What next? Clues: 12 books, 1 movie. - America woke up on November 9th to surprise and unease. How did this unlikely candidate win the election? When did the country become so divided? What can we do about
Quiet Corners of Paris - For many travelers, Paris is Parisland. Here's the Eiffel Tower. Let's take a boat ride along the Seine. Ah, the Champs Elysees. Five museums on the list ---
Quiet Corners of Rome - The book doesn’t exist, but on the basis of the title I cooked up, it’s the shortest book ever written. "Feminism in Sicily." "Quiet Corners of Rome” might be a
Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin: Forty Years of Funny Stuff - Dying is easy, they say. Comedy is hard. And here are 340 pages of comic writing, all by one guy. To pull off 340 pages of funny --- gee, going in,
Rachel Cusk: Outline: A Novel - It took me weeks to read “Outline,” which is odd, because it’s only 247 pages. I carried it everywhere, and people I saw more than once during that time commented
