The story goes like this … At a meeting of the Greenville chapter of La Leche League International, many of the women present, for reasons of expediency, wore no foundation garments. This brought their nipples into direct contact with their outer garments and, when a baby somewhere in the room began to cry, it was […]
Bloomsbury Press publisher and editorial director Peter Ginna (pronounced “gi-NAY”) speculated during a recent conversation with Warren Olney that paperback books, made obsolete by e-readers, soon will disappear from bookstore shelves. As opposed to hardback books. “One trend that I think is quite likely,” he said, “is for (hardback) books to become more precious, more […]
The casual observer would never guess that my friend wakes up each morning in despair. He smiles easily. He flirts. He laughs. He listens. He’s a great talker, too, an authentic bohemian spreading good will and philosophy with no visible means of support. When I saw my friend this morning, though, I could tell that […]
