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Claire Messud’s latest novel, “The Emperor’s Children,” accomplishes precisely this; it is an enchanting comedy of manners about the New York glitterati and three aimless, prodigiously talented Ivy League graduates on the precipice of turning 30 but lacking...
Consider the boy, at 13 or 18, through the two-way mirror at a police station - oh, he knows you're watching - and see a creature of preternatural poise. He already has the disquieting gift of lowering the temperature of any room he enters. He is armed, by birth and...
I did listen to this advice when I was a kid. We were clear in my house about how it was supposed to be. When the mommy says no, that's what she means. And you don't answer back like she's a peer. But I taught my daughter...
It's sort of ironic, don't you think, that you're doing a manners book since you've got into trouble for things you've said?
Not for bad manners! I'm a comic, and my job is to be funny. I'm political--I am that. I made a misstep once about Bob Dole and then wrote him a letter and apologized.