Elizabeth Bastos has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Boston Globe, and writes at her blog 19th-Century Lady Naturalist. Follow her on Twitter: @elizabethbastos
A reader shares some thoughts on JOYFUL by Ingrid Fetell Lee, discussing how simple aesthetic shifts can create joy.
Instead of Black Friday, could you participate in Buy Nothing Day? Inspiration from Judith Levine's memoir Not Buying It: My Year Without Shopping.
If you haven't gotten around to Edith Wharton's Gilded Age sharp-witted look at the Old World vs. the new, get to it!
