There's a thought-provoking post over at Lesboprof's about career goals, timing, and the importance (and shock!) of counting backwards. It's about the shock of recognition when you say “I want to be ...

Binnie Kirshenbaum is both a writer’s writer and a New Yorker’s New Yorker. Her debut novel, “On Mermaid Avenue” (1992), a sort of anti-coming-of-age story set in Coney Island, already evinces the ...