Nate is a 30-ish writer from Brooklyn. He is what you would expect: part of a tribe of hipster-mildly pretentious-recovering nerdy underemployed writers. He
Wait until she sees my rich golden shaft
I recently saw Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, with Mark Rylance, on Broadway, in an all-male performance. It was sublime. We are seeing it again next week, so I read the play in preparation. I haven’t read the play – perhaps any Shakespeare – for at least 15 years. It turns out reading Shakespeare is like riding a bike. (Although if you have to get onto a bike after 15 years, it is far scarier than reading Shakespeare.) Viola and Sebastian are twins, shipwrecked and separately rescued. […]
In case you have forgotten how joyous it is to literally laugh out loud
I am shortly relocating from NYC to Seattle, and last weekend, I flew to Seattle to find a place to live. Finding a place to live in three days is stressful, and it doesn’t help that the flight from NYC to Seattle is six hours, so The Rosie Project turned out to be the perfect book. This book is laugh-out-loud funny yet generous towards its characters, while maintaining a sharp wit.
Diet book lovers, unite
I am a sucker for diet books; if you struggle with your weight at all, you will understand when I say, the promise of losing weight is really the promise of a better life. Of course it