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Lay It Down

People love John Samson Fellows’s music. He doesn’t want to make it anymore.

Out Around the Bay

When Wanda bought the house, she didn’t imagine that anyone in the community would recognize that she and Lynn were queer.

Book Two: Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca

On Gothic mansions, secrets, death, and exes. The second in a series of personal essays about reading.

Checking in with Calvin Trillin, Part 2

The second part in a series of chats with Calvin Trillin, the man who—among many other things—casts the U.S. presidential campaign in iambic pentameter. Discussed: the Republican and Democratic Conventions, how Barry Goldwater would be to the left of today's GOP, Tom Lehrer, satire on television, and what's so good about The Daily Show.