I've read that people in their 30s only talk about babies and real estate, but since my friends and I are all broke and unpregnant, all we have is the naked fact of aging, stripped of the signifiers of responsibility.

But literary escorts are not simply chauffeuses; they are coaches, reconnaissance experts, debriefers, psychologists, comrades in arms.

This is a hell of a way to run a railroad.

An aryballo (an Inca ceramic vessel) that had contained chicha (an Andean corn beverage) was recovered in the fill of the tomb, as well as a Spondylus seashell [ 19 ].