Nobody Famous
Katharine EnglishPortraits, fragments, and the stories in-between.
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My Brush With Fame, Part Two
Last week, I posted an essay about the time in 2007 when my husband Paul and I spent an evening with the acclaimed actor-playwright Sam Shepard. When Paul read the piece, he said, “that’s not actually how it happened.”
“Of course it is,” I...
Perfect Posture
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People often think that Alice and I are twins. We’re not. She thinks she’s the prettier one because she’s two years older, but of course, Mother believes it’s her. She’s the queen of the Anti-S...
My Brush With Fame
From 2002 to 2008, my husband and I lived on Bleecker Street in the West Village, between Charles and West Tenth Streets. Back then, it looked very different from how it looks today, with its quirky shops and Charlie’s Deli now swallowed up...
No One Left to Catch Me
A few years ago, after my father died, I was strolling across Myrtle Avenue in Brooklyn, when this random thought popped into my head: there was no one left alive who had known me as a small child. My father had outlived my mother, and also...
Buh-bye, bookshops?
The indie bookstore business is apparently booming. Between 2020 and 2025, the number of independent bookstores in the U.S. jumped by a whopping 70%, with 422 new indie shops opening in 2025 alone – up 31% from 2024.12 New openings are outp...
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New Yorker. Debut novelist. Paying attention to the things that don't make the headlines. Essays, fiction, and the occasional dispatch from the 1 train.
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