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☆ The Everything Guide to Partying (Without Regrets)
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-21 | by ( George Gurley | Carson Griffith | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +22 min

And don’t ask who else is coming. Romilly Newman, chef, food stylist, social media personality Don’t bring a guest to a seated dinner. Raul Tovar/Houses & Parties Rebecca Gardner Please don’t ask people to take off their shoes when entering your apartment. Bronson van Wyck Gosh, I don’t think you can avoid certain topics in 2024. But don’t think you’re décor.

Persons: Ivy Getty, Rufus Wainwright, We've, Lang Phipps, Kate Upton, Illa Gaunt, Rebecca Gardner, William Laird, Sarah Harrelson, Jen Rubio, Jason Sean Weiss Sarah Harrelson, Alex Hitz, Ariel Arce, Larry Milstein, Eat, Maneesh, “ I’m, Wes Gordon, Lizzi Bickford, Smile, Tefi Pessoa, Daisy Prince, There’s, “, Kristy Hurt, headhunter, Kendall Werts, Don’t, Jorn Weisbrodt Rufus Wainwright, Harry Hurt III, Liz Lange, Athena Calderone, Jennifer Gilbert, Kyle Hotchkiss Carone, it’s, you’ve, you’re, ”, Krista Schlueter, The New York Times Molly Jong, Gary Jackson Bronson van, —, Laila Gohar, Susan Gutfreund, it’ll, Josh Flagg, somebody’s, Bronson van Wyck, Max Tucci, Sara Ruffin Costello, David Sedaris’s, Steven Badius, Kyle Hotchkiss, Kendall Werts “, It’s, Truman Capote, Jennifer Gilbert Don’t, Romilly Newman, Raul Tovar, don’t, Emily Post, ” They’re, Jobe, Lela Rose, ” Lizzi Bickford, Paloma Sandoval, Elsie Richter, Whitney, I’m, Zibby Owens, Molly Jong, That’s, Yana Paskova, The New York Times Harry Hurt, Elise Taylor, Francis Hauert, Doris Hauert, Jana Platina, Plum Sykes, Putin, Julie Reiner, Karsten Moran, Jennifer Gilbert I, Ken Fulk, Nobody, Giselle, Emma Gwyther, The New York Times Kendall Werts, Sedi, Nikki Haskell, Andy Warhol, Richard Weisman, Patricia Altschul, Amy Sacco, Hunter McRae, The New York Times Patricia Altschul, Dorothy Parker, Joey Wolffer Joey Wölffer, they’re, now’s, Rufus Wainwright I’m Organizations: Yorker, The New York Times, Trump, Biden, The New York, Google Locations: Converse, Uggs, Gardens, East Hampton, N.Y, New York, Gary Jackson Bronson van Wyck, we’ll, Delmonico’s, Europe, stow, someone’s, New Hampshire, Ukraine, Israel

☆ Listen Early to ‘This American Life’: And the Call Was Coming From the Basement
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-28 | by ( New York Times Audio | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

On This Week’s Episode:For the lead-up to Halloween, scary stories that are all true. Zombie raccoons, real haunted houses and things that go “EEEEK!! !” in the night. Plus, a story by David Sedaris, in which he walks among the dead. This is a rerun of an episode that first aired in 2006.

Persons: David Sedaris

☆ A former biology teacher who bought a small-town bookstore explains how she made the business profitable and competes with behemoths like Amazon
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-15 | by ( Kathleen Elkins | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +14 min

Outside the front door of Main Street Books sits a three-tiered cart with neatly stacked brown bags filled with books. The "Curbside Pickup" cart, which sits outside Main Street Books, was born out of the coronavirus pandemic. Courtesy of Main Street BooksMain Street Books is on Main Street in Davidson, North Carolina, nestled between another local business, Summit Coffee, and a Fifth Third Bank. In 2018, the best-selling author David Sedaris came to Main Street Books for a reading. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit in March 2020, like most businesses, Main Street Books was forced to close.

Persons: Adah Fitzgerald, she's, she'd, —, bookstore's, They're, it's, Fitzgerald, — Barbara Freund, Betty Reinke —, stepdad, David Sedaris, Fitzgerald didn't, That's, Andrea Jasmin, Beth Helfrich, Catherine Edmondson, Kendra Adachi, QuickBooks Organizations: Small, Service, Fifth Third Bank, Books, Woodlawn School, Davidson College, Street Books, American Booksellers Association Locations: breakeven, Davidson , North Carolina, Davidson

☆ Me Walk Pretty One Day
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-30 | by ( Jancee Dunn | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

David Sedaris, an avid walker, humorist and author of 13 books, including “Me Talk Pretty One Day” and “Happy-Go-Lucky,” is the perfect person to help me. Sedaris, who splits his time between New York City and Sussex, England, has been walking every day since 2014, when he started tracking his steps with a Fitbit. He has walked in cities all over the world, including Tokyo and Reykjavik. I will walk from, I don’t know, 3 o’clock until 7 o’clock. I mean, I need to walk a minimum of 10 miles.

Persons: David Sedaris, Sedaris Locations: New York City, Sussex, England, Tokyo, Reykjavik

☆ 75 Years After ‘The Lottery’ Was Published, the Chills Linger
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-26 | by ( Scott Heller | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

David SedarisAuthor, “Happy-Go-Lucky”If I’m not mistaken, my seventh-grade teacher showed us the movie of “The Lottery” before having us read it, which is unfortunate. I remember sitting in the dark when it flickered to an end, completely destroyed. I reread “The Lottery” every few years and have listened to many audio versions, none of which get the last line right in my opinion (the closest is Maureen Stapleton for The Caedmon Short Story Collection). When I first read the story it seemed fresh — was fresh, I suppose, only 23 years old. I was a kid when I first read “The Lottery,” and a weird kid at that.

Persons: David Sedaris, I’m, Maureen Stapleton, Bobby, Dickie, Old Man Warner, “, ”, Rob Savage, Carmen Maria Machado, Shirley Jackson’s, …, ” — Organizations: Old Man, Lottery

☆ Taking a Late-in-Life Victory Lap, Thanks to His Novel’s ‘Lunatic Energy’
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-16 | by ( Alexandra Alter | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Robert Plunket was living in a trailer park in Englewood, Fla., with his pug, Meatball, when an email interrupted his life of quiet retirement. “I did feel like an obscure has-been,” Plunket said, “because that’s what I was, technically.”Now, Plunket is relishing his new status as a former has-been. This month, the independent publisher New Directions reissued his novel, “My Search for Warren Harding,” a biting comedy about a scholar who goes to extreme, morally questionable lengths to access letters Warren Harding sent to his mistress. What’s even more unusual about Plunket, and his unlikely return, is how stealthily influential his fiction has been over the decades. His admirers include writers like the novelist Ann Beattie and the journalist Frank Rich, comedians like Amy Sedaris and Larry David.

Persons: Robert Plunket, Meatball, Plunket, ” Plunket, Warren Harding, ”, Danzy Senna, Ann Beattie, Frank Rich, Amy Sedaris, Larry David, Madonna, Ian Organizations: New Locations: Englewood, Fla, New York

☆ Stream These 9 Shows and Movies Before They Leave Netflix in June
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-31 | by ( Jason Bailey | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

(Chappelle notoriously walked off the show during production of its third season, with only enough material for three episodes in the can.) ‘How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days’ (June 30)There may have been better early-2000s romantic comedies, but this 2003 hit from Donald Petrie may be the most early-2000s romantic comedy. Scott’s frequent leading man Denzel Washington brings tormented complexity to the grizzled hero, whose shift at M.T.A. dispatch is disrupted by a madman (John Travolta) whose crew takes over a subway car and holds its passengers hostage. And James Gandolfini is wonderful (and miles from Tony Soprano) as the city’s mayor.

Persons: ‘, Dave Chappelle’s, Chappelle, Rick James, Lil ’ Jon, —, Donald Petrie, Kate Hudson, Matthew McConaughey, Kathryn Hahn, McConaughey, Petrie, ‘ Jerry Maguire ’, Cameron Crowe, Tom Cruise, Renée Zellweger, Crowe, ’, Antonio Banderas, ”, Salma Hayek, Guillermo del Toro, Zach Galifianakis, Amy Sedaris, Billy Bob Thornton, Tony Scott’s, Denzel Washington, John Travolta, James Gandolfini, Tony Soprano Organizations: Dave Chappelle’s Comedy, verve, Hudson, Fun Locations: Pelham, York City

☆ When a Walkable City Becomes a Death Trap
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-28 | by ( Ginia Bellafante | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

Last year saw 257 traffic fatalities in the city; just one fewer than there had been nine years ago, when Vision Zero began. The pandemic managed both to confirm and undermine New York’s reputation as the most walkable city in the country. Speeding and reckless driving were the leading causes of traffic deaths, and in 2021 they reached their highest point in the Vision Zero era. Nationally, there were more pedestrian deaths in 2021 than there had been in 40 years. Under Vision Zero, the Department of Transportation was tasked with identifying “priority corridors” — those stretches where pedestrian deaths and serious injuries are most concentrated.

☆ 'Ghosted' review: Chris Evans and Ana de Armas reunite in a spirited action comedy
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-21 | by ( Brian Lowry | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —“Chris Evans and Ana de Armas” is about all that’s required to make the sales pitch for “Ghosted,” a spirited if familiar action-based romantic comedy, where the sparring banter generally outshines the muscular stunts. Throw in clever cameos and this Apple TV+ movie delivers on its promise of unpretentious fun. Unlike the needy Cole, “Ghosted” doesn’t ask for anything more than a couple intermittently attentive hours of your time. Thanks to Evans and de Armas, it’s the sort of invitation that’s pretty hard to ignore. “Ghosted” premieres April 21 on Apple TV+.

☆ Ex-Bon Appétit editor Marissa Ross says the wine world ruined her. Now she's back and ready to give it hell.
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-23 | by ( Anna Silman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +40 min

Her rise was tied to a period of reinvention for the wine world during which natural wine conquered millennial taste buds and became ubiquitous on menus across the US. Marissa Ross, Bon Appétit's wine editor from 2016 to 2020, often posted pictures of herself chugging straight from the bottle — a technique she called "The Ross test." "Natural wine," a nebulous term that generally refers to wine made with minimal intervention and without additives like sulfites, was tentatively entering the American wine world. Many in the wine world took the idea that you didn't have to be educated to know about wine as a personal insult. When she first told BA that she planned to cover only natural wines, Ross said, Rapoport called to try to change her mind.

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