This is exactly what it was like to handle the Parmesan scoring and quartering during my cheese shift at the Park Slope Food Coop.

We are acclimating.

Now that’s pro-natalist

Well it looks like my first metronorth commuter read will involve roadkill and the remains of Camelot, somehow apropos?

Is it good luck to spill coffee all over your white shirt on the second day in the office at a new job?

Two weeks into New York life, finally an LA Weather day.

Working on getting used to a home office view without giant Seussian palm trees.

Most alarming unsolicited mail since moving.

One of her best.

Thieves in the Temple

Anyone who calls a nominee’s appearance on the first night of a convention a surprise: right to journalist jail, right away.

Watching the convention, everything just seems so...normal. My two cents on the weird/normal divide and what appears to be a party of Casserole Liberals. theatlantic.com/books/archive/…

The first piece I edited at The Atlantic and the first of many many I look forward to working on with the wonderful writer/editor Gal Beckerman theatlantic.com/books/archive/…

Other critics?

If you want to feel great about moving back to New York bring your son to the Met.

Welcome to the two-month micro-season when I’d rather be in New York than LA. (Which luckily is where I am.)

Wish I would summon Rachel Kushner, a la Marshall McLuhan in “Annie Hall,” any time a New Yorker asks me what was so great about LA.

Huge Labor Day accomplishment: We found very good birria in Yonkers (don’t laugh LA I’m serious).

There's not a line I didn't want to highlight in this Gal Beckerman banger on NaNoWriMo/AI, but I went with this one. The whole piece is worth it, though. theatlantic.com/books/archive/…

Is it news that the motive for a mass shooting is the shooter's interest in mass shootings?