One of the greatest gifts Roger Angell gave me, and he gave me many, was the perspective neither to minimize nor overstate the diminutions of talent and capability that come with age. I was at my little temporary desk at The New Yorker, where I worked long hours in the summer of 2002 as Roger’s editor on the collection Game Time, …
Sourdough
We’ve been into bread baking ever since this quirky, wiry welder/bicycle enthusiast/jack of all trades named Doug Moore came to stay with us seven years ago. Being an incredibly generous person, he started off his first day baking a loaf of bread early in the morning when the rest of us were still sleeping. We never asked him to bake …