– A reader writes:
Re: strong-voiced opinions and readers who object.
My all-time favorite complaint came from a reader who wrote a letter to the editor near the beginning of my career at the South Bend Tribune. He was objecting to a theater review I had written. The letter began: “Who is this Mark Stryker? He doesn’t seem to have any opinions but his own.”
Ha!
– A friend writes:
“…some of the paintings are very familiar….attracting hordes of noisy visitors….”
From About Last Night, April 1, 2010: “I was happy when they turned the National Gallery into a Duane Reade, and I’ll be even happier later this week when they do the same to the Phillips. These institutions, which have long outlived their day, should be doing something useful, like selling hairspray, cheap soda, and bowel prep kits.”
Double ha!
(P.S. To order a really nice book of postcards from the National Gallery’s C