Pencil

by | Mar 2, 2008 | Mirth

When NASA first started sending up astronauts, they quickly discovered that ballpoint pens would not work in zero gravity. To combat the problem, NASA scientists spent a decade and $12 billion to develop a pen that writes in zero gravity, upside down, underwater, on...

Richard Price’s New LUSH LIFE

by | Mar 2, 2008 | Literary News

Sleepy-Eyed Writer, Wandering Byzantium By CHARLES McGRATH in the New York Times Published: March 2, 2008 YOU might not know it to look at him, but the novelist Richard Price has over the years picked up what one of his characters might call some cheddar. He has a...