"I recently wrote about eating out, describing the 'eateries' I patronized with my mother, and with my first dates, and in high school and college: candy stores, delicatessens, luncheonettes, cafeterias and restaurants."
"I always liked the line from Moliere’s Bourgois Gentilhomme (?) where he discovers that he is speaking prose. This came to mind as David is working on a paper about Jews and blacks and Italians in New York and other urban centers. What David is…