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"A friend who's much smarter than I once theorized that the process of growing up involves going either through a Tolkien phase or a Beat phase, but never both."
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A nature writer's story about ferrets was plagiarized for pillow talk in a bad romance novel.
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Touring Indian restaurants with a professor of food studies at NYU.
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I turned to my brother, and I said, "Good."
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New Hampshire = Bangladesh
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