New York Diary: A Day at the Races
by Geoff & Rosecrans
Two-dollar champions or bank-drained losers, fortunes and retirements made over cocktails—what’s not to love about horse racing?
Rosecrans Baldwin and TMN photographer
Geoff Badner spend a day at Belmont with their wallets in their hands.
A Course Guide to Literary Readings
by Philip Graham
These days, literary readings aren’t as boring as they should be. But what for the budding author or poet, still in school, who doesn’t know how to smash a guitar or bake a cobbler onstage?
Philip Graham has suggestions for expanding the curriculum.
The Letters of Gary Benchley, Rock Star: Schizopolis Resurgent
by Gary Benchley
After a year of living in New York, he has acquired an apartment, a job, a rewarding hobby, and a meaningful, sexless relationship—all the tokens of an early middle age? Rock star hopeful
Gary Benchley struggles with turning 23, and finds an epiphany.
Weak in Review
by Rosecrans Baldwin
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week the Non-Expert helps a reader who’s already having a hard time sticking to his New Year’s resolution.
Pentagon says military strikes are not the primary piece of America’s retaliation.
