“ When I was on the editorial board, there was a guy I worked with named Steve Weisman, and he was married to a correspondent named Elisabeth Bumiller. They had two small children. Elisabeth got sent to Kosovo to cover the war. I ran into Steve one day, and he looked so terrible. So I said to him, ‘What is wrong with you?’ He said, ‘My wife is in Albania, and the hamster is missing.’ I thought that could be the title of a book about the new American family.
emmyjean
so long as i remain alive and well i shall continue to feel strongly about prose style, to love the surface of the earth, and to take pleasure in solid objects and scraps of useless information
October 27, 2009
