“I have come around to suspecting that Kohberger was not the catalyst for all the horror—that it wasn’t his idea.”

“If Brooklyn continues to follow the Harry playbook like this, we can probably expect a tell-all documentary and book before long.”

“I sent my kids there because other parents sent their kids there. It sounds terrible, but it’s true.”

Yerin Ha’s future has “happily ever after” written all over it.

Tyler James Williams’s least favorite present: “Someone else’s headshot.”

"A jaunty, irreverent, and constantly surprising sermon on forgiveness."

“Val d’Anniviers is different.”

“He would regularly scream at his employees when they displeased him.”

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“Was anybody else arrested?”

How inappropriately did Victoria dance, exactly? How does one dance “on” someone?

“I’m so angry that you left this world at 16, just because you wanted to celebrate New Year’s.”

“There was a lot of responsibility on my shoulders. [But it] just made me want to prepare as much as I could to be able to give it my all."

Tyler James Williams’s preferred form of revenge: “The pettiest long game.”

"As ever in Saunders, poignancy and farce are so wrapped up with one another that we don’t know whether to howl with laughter or with alarm."

“Here, unlike Gstaad or Zermatt, there is a tradition of minimizing the glitz.”

“Many of the former employees I was in touch with expressed fear of what speaking out would mean—even after Lynch was dead.”

This trio of celebrated Brooklyn writers continues to generate an endless supply of reality-TV-worthy melodrama.

From Barry Blitt’s sketchbook …

“I have been silent for years.”

“If we said there was an accomplice, we’d look like fools for negotiating the plea bargain. The truth is ... there is a lot that we don’t know. Or that we will ever know.”

“They say that your life can change in a day, and mine did.”

“I went to Le Constellation with my friends. It’s where I had my first kiss.”

“We lost the colonies because our King went insane. But now the shoe’s on the other bloody foot, isn’t it?”

“I went to St. Barth’s and got a bacterial infection.”

“If she had turned it down and said: ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today."

“We’re taking over Nikki Beach.”

"Thank-you notes are not a generational relic.… They remain, very simply, the most civilized way to acknowledge effort."

“My ‘boyfriend’ is three decades older than me. My ‘boyfriend’ is older than my father. My ‘boyfriend’ is one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century.”

“Of course La Tourette is your favorite ‘Corb’ building.”

“Of course La Tourette is your favorite ‘Corb’ building.”

“He represents my best interests.”

“Do I have to resubmit my resignation every day in the face of new crises?”

“I think he has valid critiques of neo-feminism.”

From Ruby Wright’s sketchbook …

“This wouldn’t keep me from going to St. Barth’s.”

“Oh my God, these New Yorkers are trying to turn Miami into New York.’”

From Barry Blitt’s sketchbook …

“It is fascinating to contemplate time in relation to Rodney Smith’s work, as there is a sense of suspension in his images."

The Air Mail guide to the thank-you note.

“Martha was getting to the essence of being human, of existing in a community of humans.”

“Of course La Tourette is your favorite ‘Corb’ building.”

"I heard you mention that you’re a writer like my daughter. It’s good that you both do the same things. It’s good you have things in common."

“Why would I, a 20-year-old girl, want to watch a boring political stream every night?”

“It must be incredibly hurtful to a father who’s given him everything.”

“Almost all of the billionaires have been infected with chlamydia. Please do not hook up with these billionaires.”

“This is not what I hoped for with Miami Beach. The new world is different. It’s build, build, build. More and more and more expensive things.”

From Barry Blitt’s sketchbook … airmail.news/sh/WRhgxX/bs

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