Seen and Heard

The Determined Dilettante's Coney Island Anti-Nostalgia (I wish there were a real word for this. Is there?) is bracing as the sea air on a spring day. Singer claims, "Kitsch nixes nostalgia." Since when? Some of the images are Online Only.

Jossip's digest of this week's New Yorker is a little harder to read. I can't quite catch the tone. And will paid labor really produce a regular, weekly feature, where our heartfelt labors of love have faltered? Faltered in a good way, of course.