What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place.
If General Haig is so smart, why did he finish 214th (out of 310) in his graduating class at West Point? Does that mean there are 213 generals his age who are smarter than he is?
I'm more disturbed when people expect me to be serious.
I don't cook. I don't know anything about food. I've never reviewed a restaurant.
The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
The food in such places is so tasteless because the members associate spices and garlic with just the sort of people they're trying to keep out.