Bill, Hillary, and The Rest of Our Lives
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That novel is the story of your life – from childhood’s awakenings, miseries, and joys, through the muddle in the middle, to the moment you breathe your last. Every life has the deepest, truest, most fundamental requirement of a story:…
Regular Bacon contributor Laura Cooper recently returned from a family trip to Italy, where her army of three sons and a husband were equal parts barbarians at the gate and consumers of gelato. Today, she thinks about the American abroad, historically speaking. For Laura’s bio and…
A friend of BaconOnTheBookshelf sent me an urgent message today to share with readers and eaters alike. It was reported in the New Orleans Times Picayune and the Nashville Business Journal blog that Cochon Butcher will be opening in Nashville’s…
If our family is a hive, I like to think of myself as the Queen Bee. As if I’m not disabused of that notion on a daily basis by my teenage daughters, I’ve recently been reminded by a terrific new…
Don’t expect to see Ashley Levi’s cheerful, smiling face in Nashville too much this summer. She and the kids will be in Charlevoix, Michigan! It’s possibly her favorite spot in the world – a “simple little town in northern Michigan with…
My friend Lawrence Blank-Cook liked Karen Joy Fowler’s We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves so much that she couldn’t even bear to start another book once she’d finished it. She found herself in a terrible funk – an avid reader, no book by…
I met Roger Moore this past Spring at the Ballet Ball; seated next to him at dinner, I couldn’t have asked for a finer evening! Roger is an absolutely enchanting conversationalist. That night, I learned that he is a professor…
No one needs to tell my dear friend Betsy Wills to lean in! She has managed a family and high-test career with energy and enthusiasm to spare. She is hard-working, fun-loving, and terrifically smart. Most recently, she co-founded YouScience, an…
“Brad Paisley, you can almost Start Me Up, but we are here for the Rolling Stones!” – Kobie Pretorius, Facebook, from LP Field, 6/17/2015. From George Cassidy, author and rocker (reposted from December 2014): A Prince Among Stones by Prince Rupert…