Dear Prudence: The Column: The Book Is Out April 4th“I want to be right all of the time; in my natural condition and given the option, I would choose the warm satisfaction of self-righteousness over happiness ninety-nine times out of a hundred. I recognize this impulse is at best maladaptive and have the necessary system of…
"Every woman is interesting for at least one evening": The Short-Lived Escort Boom of the 1930s and Ted Peckham's Gentlemen…I’ve recently been expanding my Marjorie Hillis collection – having mistakenly believed for years that she’d only written Live Alone and Like It and Orchids On Your Budget, it’s been a delight to pick up You Can Start All Over (a guide for plucky widows),
"God helpe the poore Fishes; it is a hard world with them, they use not to lye under such thicke roofes:" Highlights From the Great Frost Fairs of 1683Original (“The great frost. cold doings in London, except it be at the lotterie. With newes out of the country. A familiar talk betwene a country-man…
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