No third engagement, but I did come home to find a wedding invite waiting in my mailbox.

I wrote about finding comfort in Hitchcock's singular brand of humor. Big thanks to @brightwalldarkroom.com for featuring my work in the Comedy Happy Place issue! 🐦‍⬛🔪🌀🔑🚞🔭

*Once again
(Ugh, transit typo)

One again, my Lufthansa boarding pass says "Mrs. Kantor." Still childless, though.

They're now boarding passengers with children. Soon, passengers on their way to the Bologna Children's Book Fair.

Randi Pink on the YA Black Renaissance buff.ly/66Zb5HR

National Book Award–winning author Shifa Saltagi Safadi reflects on what is lost when we surrender our creative acts to AI buff.ly/3FHzGLJ

Sullivan's Travels (7/9) Movie CLIP - Sully Laughs Again (1941) HD YouTube video by Movieclips

A reminder that "Sullivan's Travels" is a Passover movie. Happy Pesach!

Amen! I'm always so relieved when Pesach doesn't overlap with my trip to the land of pasta and pizza...and pastries.

The last two years while heading to the Bologna Children's Book Fair, I heard news that people close to me had just gotten enagaged. I'm going back on April 10. Who will be the lucky third couple?

Just one of those long-repressed traumatic memories that resurfaced as I was getting ready to go to sleep.

My freshman year of college, I mixed up the classrooms & what I thought was Stagecraft 101 turned out to be Advanced Physics.

I was out of there at the speed of light.

And then I realized I'd left my backpack behind...

I only feel alive when I'm on deadline.

New kitchen hazard unlocked: I sliced my pinkie while cleaning the pasta strainer.

I've given it some serious thought. My dream man is George Harrison Ford.

Current streak: Riso Amaro > Tenement Stories series > Days and Nights in the Forest... and looking forward to The Third Man

Film Forum is the best if you want to see a great movie as well as the trailer for the next great movie you want to see at Film Forum.

Bologna Children’s Book Fair Partners with UN on New Exhibit The Bologna Children’s Book Fair and the United Nations hosted a panel and opening celebration on February 24 for “Turning the Page on Change” at the UN headquarters in New York City

A field trip to the United Nations—my first!

Jason Low, publisher of Lee & Low Books, issues a call to action to fellow members of the industry to focus their efforts on fighting book bans buff.ly/Jc7UGNu

He didn't even give me a chance to clarify that I like Kahlúa!

Someone just un-asked me out because I said, "I'm not a big coffee drinker but l'd be happy to meet for a warm beverage!"

Pitch: a cookbook titled "Don't Try This at Home"

Children’s Books Have a Herman Melville Moment buff.ly/NWAErTH

I had a *whale* of a time working on this for Publishers Weekly! Thanks to writer Libby Morse for the delightful and insightful article on Melville-inspired children's books, and to the incredible crew of authors and illustrators who shared their work 🐳 📚

Peter Strausfeld, the Movie-Poster Master An exhibition in New York celebrates the work Strausfeld made for a cinema in London over the course of more than thirty years—designs of graphic confidence that were clean, strong, and scornful of em...

"The poster itself is a printed paradox: a static and heraldic portent of pictures that move." Great article in @newyorker.com about a great exhibit at Poster House. On view through April 12.

When Tim Curry Set Sail for ‘Muppet Treasure Island’

My first and finest movie-going memory @nytimes.com

"Surfing the crimson wave," as Cher Horowitz would say.

Takes the bloody nose/proposal in "Emma." to another level

JANE AUSTEN'S PERIOD DRAMA / 2026 Oscar®-Nominated Short Film YouTube video by JULIA AKS

I laughed all the way through the end credits. (Keep an eye out for a certain "Emma"—neither Kantor nor Woodhouse.)

I watched the first season of Bridgerton with my parents (a bold choice) and every time there was nudity we'd yell, "Tuchus!"