Friday Front: James Wolcott on Books About Bush
The top of One Gracie Square, which presents two façades to Gracie Square (the easternmost block of 84th Street). Nice little terrace up there.
Yesterday, I put Christmas away. I removed the ornaments and the lights from the tree, which I single-handedly wombled into a very large plastic bag made for the purpose. As a result of this successful operation, I was able to transport the green but very dead tree to the freight elevator room without carpeting the corridor in fir. That was just the beginning, of course. Boxing up the decorations and sliding them back into their hard-to-get places took a few hours. The music that I listened to while I worked was distinctly un-seasonal: Schoenberg’s lush Gurre Lieder.