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I enjoy many Joel Stein columns, but "Anxiety of Influence" was not awesome [March 29]. I found it ignorant and sad that Stein described his wife's comment "God, I hope [our son] doesn't have Asperger's" as "trash-talking." If he did face such a challenge, Joel, would...
Her new novel, Imperfect Birds (Riverhead; 278 pages), functions in reverse, suggesting all the terror of the big picture. It's about Elizabeth and James, liberal do-gooders from Marin County, California (and the subjects of her previous novels Rosie and Crooked Little Heart), and their daughter Rosie. At 17...
I decided to ignore the National Day of Unplugging - a 24-hour break from the Internet, TV, iPods, GPS and phones - on March 19 largely because I thought it was stupid. I hate those acts of righteous self-denial that people do just so they can brag about them: health...
But by the next morning, Cassandra had come around. The idea of unplugging was good, she'd decided. It just had to be done without driving to parties, which, it turns out, is actually the way the Bible suggests. So I decided to tack on a second 24 hours. And...
'If limos, chartered aircraft and sex clubs are where they think their donors' money should be spent, who are we to judge?'