"I can still remember the thrill of holding that much-anticipated cone, taking my first lick . . . then watching the scoop roll off its biscuity throne to the sidewalk."
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- "I found two dead people in theaters too. That was kind of crazy." Pat Caldwell to @chrisstanton27 for @vulture @NYMag
- "The time-course of Stand by Me is both 48 hours and 40 years. Its physical scale is that of 12-year-old feet and the 50-odd miles they walk. Its intellectual scale is that of 12-year-old brains, which is to say, bigger than you think." Alec Joyner for @BWDR
- "Obituaries are a reminder that when you die, someone else gets the last word on your legacy—or, at least, the first of the last words." Read an excerpt from Sam Roberts's "Are They Dead Yet?," out today via @BloomsburyPub
- "It occurred to me that perhaps I was misdirecting my anger, that perhaps I was really angry about how buying a home is inaccessible to most of my generation, and that my senior neighbors aren’t to blame for that." Amy Brown for @oakreviewbooks:
