Leland — Of all the names whispered in the presence of ghosts, “Susan” is by far the most popular. The examples are seemingly as numerous as the theories why. On one of the dozens of Internet discussion boar...
New haven — I’m waiting for the commuter train at the New Haven train station, which is almost 100 years old. My stop is New London, CT, just 50 minutes away but the board reads Harrisburg, PA. I have to check wi...
Higashiyama ward — “Most Japanese girls giggle,” begins Capote’s 1957 profile on Marlon Brando for The New Yorker. I first came across this piece a few years ago during my Capote phase in which I was hunting down and d...