While the idea of the Tournament of Books is excellent, might I suggest an addition to the following years’ tournaments? Audience participation, of course. Your readers would, I am sure, be delighted to weigh in with their own pronouncements on the relative merits of the various books and vote. So
Dear The Morning News, I love you, and wish I wasn’t an impoverished student so I could give you money. Because I would. I especially love “The Education of Elisabeth Eckleman” (alliteration! yes!) and am sad that it isn’t already in novel form so I could stay up
Dear editors, To Danny Gregory’s question (Can watercolors change how you perceive a killer?), I answer yes. Gregory’s drawings will most likely allow most viewers to perceive these flawed human beings—who are the products of a very flawed country—as nothing more than callous idiots. Most Americans
In Cody Weiwandt’s article, in which he supplies the tough answers to Jadakiss’s hard questions, he gets a couple of things wrong. “A burner” refers to a firearm, not a joint. The jail sentence Jada protests is presumably for unlawful possession of a firearm. “Under a dime” means
I applaud Clay Risen on a most intelligent rebuttal to Charles Simic’s report of his trip through the South. I am sad to hear that Mr. Simic did not appreciate the graciousness of the docents in Jackson’s Mississippi Arts Pavilion. They welcome guests into the museum as if
Hey, fellas, This email concerns the published IQ test, “The Non-Expert: IQ,” by Andrew Womack. One of the questions in the test said: Imagine turning a handheld calculator upside-down, and using numbers to spell words on the display (where 1=I, 2=z, 3=E, 4=h, 5=
Rosecrans, I think you are blowing the no-TV thing way out of proportion. I know plenty of people in New York who don’t own televisions—at least three in my office alone, and that’s not counting friends. When people ask me if I’ve seen the latest
I am a fan of the Non-Expert’s expertise, which has been useful to me on occasion, especially your answer to the “Women: What For?” question. My affection compels me to write when the Non-Expert is less than correct, which is rare. In the case of the conclusion
“A backwards plus upside-down freestyle stroke, for which many swimmers wear goggles. Why?” If it is all right, I would like to answer the question. I swam competitively from 1996-2001 and I enjoy telling people about the world’s most under-appreciated sport. (You can find out more
Having just looked through the photo essay “Appetite,” I’m wondering if Geoff Badner would even RECOGNIZE a vegetable? Look, I’m not a ranting vegan hippie or anything, but seriously—green? Orange? Yellow? Geoff, do you realize how much of the food you ate in that essay is either
