Rough drafts (Or, why it’s good for your stories to get peed on every now and then)

I try to heap praise on the folks who toil behind the bylines. Does it hurt you to bring the news researcher a decadent brownie every now and then?

The tonic of garlic, the NYT and ‘a bit more’

When it’s all gone and your headache history, ask somebody to make you a bit more.

60 hours in New York: 4 feet, 3 ferries, 1 train, 3 buses, 6 subways and a taxi ride or 2

New Yorkers, get ready to pull out your fancy pantyhose and break out the Smithwicks: Big Lick’s coming to town.

Butterfly privates, Nabokov-style

Nabokov spent many eye-draining hours of his time in this out-of-the-way corner of Harvard, hand-slicing the genitalia of butterflies and placing them in small vials where he would draw pictures from them, study them and let his imagination roam.

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