Read Extra! Selling the news by Ben McGrath in 11/7/05 New Yorker. An interesting sketch about a newspaper vendor at 42nd & 8th.
Also, Air quality report: that smell by Nick Paumgarten, is also funny. A large area, people can smell maple syrup. A lot of investigation, but no definite result.
Scooter’s sex shocker by Lauren Collins is about the sex writings of Libby, the former chief of staff of Dick Cheney. So surprising!
Listened to the Lopate show, about apes, and One Bullet Away, about US Marine Corps.
Research Eleanor of Aquitaine, mentioned a lot in the Rama books.
