
Haikus from the Hollow!
My good friend Lauren at the newly-created (and still mid-design) Shubert Alley Cat ("Broadway, Bourbon and Bon Mots") is working from home today and has been gifting me all day with haikus inspired by her viewing of Gilmore girls. Enjoy! Am working from home. Eating brunch. Gilmore girls on. Logan ruined brunch. Gilmore on again. Changing the channel right now. I hate Anna Nardini. Rory will forgive. Logan does not deserve it. She's better than him! Luke doesn't get it. Lor

A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
I feel all guilty, allowing myself to read what is my personal reading junk food... literary fiction. But eh, you have to allow yourself some dark, stylistically beautiful Cool Ranch Doritos every once in awhile. [BWR Note: And this challenge may have had some unintended side effects... since when is reading literary fiction akin to eating a bag of Twizzlers in one sitting? You haven't done that? Yeah, me neither.] While a book told in this method could easily seem disjoin

California by Edan Lepucki
I originally picked this up because Stephen Colbert told me to. I'm simple and I always do what the people in the television tell me to. California by Edan Lepucki Luckily, this time, listening to the people in the big box was a good idea.
Edan Lepucki has an incredible insight into the boring truths about marriage. Even after the world has all but ended, marriages are the same. You may love someone so much it hurts, but occasionally you just want to see a face other tha



