* And so we come to Christmas eve. Our household tradition is to make pasta, something we only attempt once a year (because, in truth, we’re not very good at it). It gets everyone involved and believe me, a lot of hands are needed as those sheets of pasta get…
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I understand that news outlets routinely use stolen information. That’s how we got the Pentagon Papers, to use an oft-used argument. But there is nothing in these documents remotely rising to the level of public interest of the information found in the Pentagon Papers. Do the emails contain any information…
On October 22nd, 1939, Hedda Hopper landed on the front page of the Los Angeles Times with an item that suggested that the son of President Roosevelt, James, an executive at the Goldwyn studio was on the brink of divorce. Here’s a little bit of the copy, and yes, it…
Story by Daniel Miller Illustrations by Morgan Schweitzer Photography by Gina Ferazzi November 1, 2014 It was hot and I was late for lunch. I was feeling mean, like I’d been left out in the sun too long. We were meeting at a joint on La Brea, the kind of…
You once worked as an acquisitions editor at the British publisher, Faber & Faber. Do you miss anything about that job? Are you kidding? That was the best job I ever had. I had lunch with the old chairman, Matthew Evans, this week, and we both went dewy-eyed about the…
This unholy interplay between public persona and private life has been going on a very long time. And just as long as it’s been going on there has speculation, publication, and incessant unnecessary chatter—and still the world spins. There may be clean energy solution for the dire situation our planet…