Cooking with Nikolai Gogol: “Delicious beyond description!…Pies you couldn’t imagine in your wildest dreams: they melt in your mouth! And the butter—it just runs down your lips when you bite into them.”
“I wish I could say that Banned Books Week, which blessedly ends tomorrow, is so stupid that it makes my brain hurt,” writes Matthew Walther. “It’s actually so stupid that it makes me wish I didn’t have a brain.”
Is there a comedy line Mel Brooks won’t cross? “I personally would never touch gas chambers or the death of children or Jews at the hands of the Nazis,” he said in a recent interview. “Everything else is ok.”
