Perhaps we've time to have a look at the Number Thirty-One bus queue before we turn in.

A new regulation for the publishing industry: "The advance for a book must be larger than the check for the lunch at which it was discussed.

There is no question that Rumanian-Jewish food is heavy. One meal is equal in heaviness, I would guess, to eight or nine years of steady mung-bean eating.

Even today, well-brought-up English girls are taught by their mothers to boil all veggies for at least a month and a half, just in case one of the dinner guests turns up without his teeth.

What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place.

I've written three books you could think of as memoirs.

Kerr's Three Rules for a Successful College: Have plenty of football for the alumni, sex for the students, and parking for the faculty. If law school is so hard to get through, how come there are so many lawyers?