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Benjamin Dreyer's avatar

I love this report so much! (I may reread it a few times today to keep my spirits up!) And I'm so thrilled to think of you revisiting Once Is Not Enough.

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michaela's avatar

I am green with envy about the success of your week! I was there the same week w/ my almost-19-year-old -- we were also at Gypsy on the 19th!! -- and I had very little success getting her to take any initiative at all. We hit the Met and thrifting in Williamsburg, but the big hit for us (besides Gypsy) was a blustery visit to Coney Island and a Totonno's pizza eaten on the train back to Brooklyn. Oh, and also the Tesla Takedown protest in the meatpacking district followed by major people watching in Washington Square Park.

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Laura Lippman's avatar

Sounds pretty great to me, especially Totonno's, which I remember as traveling particularly well.

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Michelle's avatar

These newsletters are the highlight of my day when they appear unannounced in my email. I love them! And - do not apologize for enjoying life. You deserve what you have earned - you work hard and always have. I am so glad you are sharing your vision with your daughter while also allowing us to live vicariously through you! I have never been to NYC (or NY for that matter) and it sounds very peopley and scary to me. Heading out now to buy your new book!

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Ken Hittel's avatar

NYC is full of very peoply people, which I think is the best kind of people. You will enjoy yourself & us. As a native Balamer, I guarantee it.

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Kim B's avatar

This was a treat to read and to see how you and your daughter enjoyed your time. I don't have children, but just met up in Scotland with one of my lifelong dear friends whom I haven't seen in more than 10 years (she lives in NY, I live in Paris) and her 17-year-old daughter. We spent a few days running around St Andrews and Edinburgh, and there was the joy of being with my friend and feeling like not a second had passed, and that her daughter was also an ABSOLUTE DELIGHT to spend time with. It got me thinking about my nieces, and daughters of another couple of good friends, and these young women put a spring in my step ! So it was so fun to read another iteration of this here. Thank you.

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Callie Palmer's avatar

This sounds like a heavenly trip. I have to say, and pardon my crass reference, that those shoes put me in mind of the toes of a camel. That's all I will say about that. Those canisters are dreamy!

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Laura Lippman's avatar

We did! We also liked the hands-on experiences. But my daughter absolutely glazed over when we got to Todd Haynes and I tried to give her a quick briefing on Douglas Sirk.

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Anjanette Delgado's avatar

Lots of travel intelligentsia to be gleaned from this report. Thanks for sharing! (For your next trip: Beacon’s Closet Thriftshop, The Strand Bookstore, Japonica—around the corner from The Strand—Three Lives and Co. bookstore and Risotteria Melotti in the Village. ❤️

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Leslie Hyman's avatar

What are the chances that I would be reading No Good Deeds on the flight to visit my mom in NYC (from San Antonio), be reminded once again what a fantastic writer you are, realize I hadn’t seen your posts on Twitter for a while, and find you on Bluesky right when you are posting about a mother-daughter NYC visit?

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Laura Lippman's avatar

Love this!

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yellojkt's avatar

I love hearing about people's trips to New York because it always gives me ideas for what to do. The Museum of the Moving Image is now on my to-do list.

New York City with a place to stay is the ultimate privilege. We made the mistake of buying theater tickets during Met Gala weekend and hotels are frightfully expensive, but sunk cost and all that. We have started taking trains to NYC instead of driving. Never ever even contemplated flying because the distance from the airports to Manhattan make the door-to-door time longer than the other options, including the MegaBus.

My Mama Rose is Tyne Daly, who was perfectly serviceable. I do have upcoming tickets for Old Friends, a Sondheim I had never heard of, with Bernadette Peters and Lea Salonga. I feel pretty proud of having seen the Neil Patrick Harris "Assassins" which is a big check on any Sondheim completist list. And Signature Theater in NoVa being close to Baltimore helps too.

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Laura Lippman's avatar

Signature Theater's "Funny Thing" was so much much and their "Pacific Overture" was stunning.

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yellojkt's avatar

We saw their "Sunday in the Park with George" which was amazing.

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Susan E. Rogers's avatar

Love your adventures! Keep life spicy. We just got back from a week in Havana. Está volao!

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Zelda's avatar

Sounds like you had a lovely week of doing just exactly what you wanted to.

Off topic, the Beany group is gathering in Montreal in September if you want to join us.

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Laura Lippman's avatar

Oh, Zelda -- when? Tough month for me as I have to go to Scotland, but ever so tempted.

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Zelda's avatar

Sept 12-14.

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Cindy Chinelly's avatar

Miss hanging with you two, but glad I was able to do it vicariously through this newsletter! I remember when Martin Margiela introduced the Tabi on the runway in the late 80's. The critics were not kind.

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Susie Madrak's avatar

Saw the original run of Company when I was 15. Can't get much more Sondheim than that!

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Leigh Raper's avatar

The booksellers at McNally Jackson are always so helpful (and cheerful - not a given.) I'm putting that patty melt on my list. I've never successfully created one at home that was anywhere close to the effort. Glad y'all got a re-do.

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SedonaRocks's avatar

A Spring break to remember.

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Beth's avatar

My Mama Rose was Bernadette Peters. A nice treat during a business trip.

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Jayna's avatar

I loved seeing the movie poster because a scene in that movie was filmed at a little restaurant on the corner across the street from my mother’s apartment on 35th between 2nd and 3rd. My husband and I were visiting and we watched the shoot from Mother’s bedroom window on the 8th floor.

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Laura Lippman's avatar

VERY cool.

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