The memoirist’s eternal question: Is it really interesting, or does it just seem interesting because it’s about me?
The president said, in sonorous tones that oozed sincerity and suggested profundity: “We are stronger when we’re united.” True, as clichés often are. I’d have preferred: “We are safer when there’s gun control.”
The New Yorker has lost some of its imperiousness over the years; for instance, it now publishes letters. But those letters constitute for me its greatest mystery: Do the editors never receive a funny one, or do they simply have no sense of humor?
I can't decide what to see this weekend: "The Mummy" or "Wonder Woman." Perhaps I'll just wait till next summer's "Wonder Mummy."
When Terry Gross asked David Sedaris on Fresh Air yesterday why he chose to publish his diaries as opposed to stories based on them, he gave a long, historic answer - going back to his schooldays - as opposed to the response I wanted to hear: "Because I could."