Paul is Lily’s gay best friend and closest romantic confidant. Grating portmanteaus are a crucial part of their relationship.

From I’m Always Looking Up and You’re Jumping, which will be published next year by Random House.

Such a terrible schemozzle you caused that I couldn’t take you back after that.” The scandal, which became known as the ...

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Before going up Millstone Hill the crowd waited in a field for darkness to fall. As the long summer day trailed on, they twirled colored ribbons and tossed devil sticks in the air, a jam band played, ...

I can’t name the seven major types of plastic, but I’m pretty sure I’ve thrown them all away. Crumpled them up, peeled them off the bottom of my shoe, chucked them like basketballs after saying, “For ...

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Donald Trump’s second victory cannot be attributed to any unhappy accident of eighteenth-century constitutionalism. This time, he won not only the Electoral College, that antique curiosity, but the ...

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