SMALL TALK
If You Give a Girl a Cookie…

Every cookie has a story. This is the story of the peanut butter cookie I ate in the early morning hours last Wednesday: In 2003, […]

Say What? Saybrew

I don’t really like beer. I remember one of the first times I ever tried it, at an Easter gathering. I was about 12, and […]

Arbitrary Artifacts

I walk into the Beinecke one bitterly cold morning this winter to see two chairs. Inside, the silence wells up like the inside of a […]

Pink Boats and Cotton Gins

Two and a half miles northeast of Yale campus, the Eli Whitney Museum and Workshop lies on property that once belonged to the museum’s namesake, […]

Spinning on a Stick

Lollipops have a long history in New Haven — a history that no one seems to know much about. Ostensibly, the handy sweets were invented […]

Home on the Green

Sunday, Oct. 30, 6:30 p.m. It’s already dark by the time my two friends and I get to the occupied part of the New Haven […]

Toledo Blade

I made it to the Toledo Blade newspaper every morning on a bike from Target whose rubber handles slid off slowly and whose back brakes […]

Just Another Name

The only tokens Chhet Bon-Her has left from the beginning of his life are memories — no mementos, no photographs. Everything he owns now, from […]

The Sun Also Rises

Eighty years after establishing itself as a meeting place for expatriate writers and artists, Shakespeare & Company is still doing good business in the Lost […]

Gourmet Heaven

6:42 a.m. Sunlight begins to trickle overtop the bundled roses and past the rows of potato chips until it seems to collect with a concentrated […]

Weenie Bin C62F

Weenie Bin C62F is just like the 43 other weenie bins in Bass Library, except that it isn’t. Like the rest, it is lit by […]