Good presents: Visits from two of my brilliant 2014s, @evelyncheng_reports, now a senior correspondent for @cnbc, based in Beijing for the past 6 years, and @mrlancerichardson. Watch for Lance's biography of Peter Matthiessen next fall. Snippets of their 2014 work below. They were already great.

Calvin Trillin on his US Journal columns via @paigewilliams.bsky.social link.newyorker.com/view/5be9cee...

Some gloom "about the fate of 'serious' non-fiction: history, biography, the more ambitious reaches of popular science..." www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

This seen in the Greenwich Village exhibit at the New York Public Library, opposite the intended page on display. It's from more than a 100 years ago. "What's Wrong with the Newspapers?" By Walter Lippmann. Vanity Fair, February 1921.

Seen on the shelving cart at my neighborhood branch library @brookekroeger.bsky.social

Newborn or newsroom? I opted for newsroom in 1976 but two academics say the dilemma is as fresh and fraught as ever. Per Flora Lewis [Undaunted p165], bosses in the 1940s forced their pregnant staffers to quit. urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=htt...

Saying hello.