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"The pine cone preserves jar is always entirely filled with cones, unlike our competitors": Six of the Most Expensive Jams I Could Find
"Jam from young pine cones will quickly restore strength, support immunity, replenish your body with valuable vitamins and micro-elements.”
Daniel Lavery
Mar 23
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Questions People Have Had For Me Now That A Third Dog Is Here
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Daniel Lavery
Mar 21
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"Every woman is interesting for at least one evening": The Short-Lived Escort Boom of the 1930s and Ted Peckham's Gentlemen For Rent
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…
Daniel Lavery
Mar 17
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The British River-Disaster Genre: "The Willows" is a Reverse "Three Men in a Boat"
Previously in reverse plots coverage: City Slickers is a reverse Cain and Abel and The Talented Mr. Ripley is a reverse A Room With a View. Algernon…
Daniel Lavery
Mar 14
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"He Made So Much Pizza, It Almost Killed Him": You Simply Must Watch Chef's Table: Pizza
Perhaps you are already familiar with the documentary series Chef’s Table? I’ve caught the errant episode here and there without ever feeling especially…
Daniel Lavery
Mar 10
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"You Should Call Your Father": On the Unbearable Estrangement of Other People's Families
Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein describe in The Final Days Richard Nixon’s reaction to his loss of power: “Between sobs, Nixon was plaintive...How had a…
Daniel Lavery
Mar 7
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"You Should Call Your Father": On the Unbearable Estrangement of Other People's Families
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"20,000 Years in Sing Sing"
Another successful find from my recent trip to Freebird Books has been an early edition of Lewis E. Lawes’ 1932 memoir, 20,000 Years in Sing Sing. I…
Mar 1
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February 2023
Travel Tips for Visiting New York in 1920
This weekend I unexpectedly stumbled onto Freebird Books on a walk along the Red Hook waterfront. Inside I came across a copy of Valentine’s City of New…
Daniel Lavery
Feb 27
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The May Queen is kind of stuck up, and kills people. The Harvest Queen mostly just does hayrides and everybody likes her
May Queen: Always capers at the front of the parade by herself Almost no bounty to share, unless you count wreaths and flower crowns Hope you like…
Daniel Lavery
Feb 23
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The Best Books I've Read By Accident This Year
Most of the books I’ve read in the last year or so have been entirely new to me. I’d guess roughly 90% were the result of an offhand comment from…
Daniel Lavery
Feb 21
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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…
Daniel Lavery
Feb 16
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"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…
Original (“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…
Daniel Lavery
Feb 14
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