
Melissa Kirsch
Deputy Editor, Culture and Lifestyle at The New York Times
Culture & lifestyle editor at The New York Times. I write The Morning on Saturdays☀️.
Articles
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1 week ago |
nytimes.com | Melissa Kirsch
I generally work three days in the office, two days from home. Recently, I was working on things that necessitated my being there in person, so I worked Monday through Friday, all five days in the office. The week felt long, unending. I kept thinking, "Tomorrow's Friday," but there was always another day. I had expected to feel spent at the end of the week, ready to return to the hybrid schedule, but instead I felt sort of delighted. Yes, the week was long, and wasn't that great?
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2 weeks ago |
nytimes.com | Melissa Kirsch
It's the time of year when we become reacquainted with what's been hiding out in the back of the closet. The weather's turning, necessitating an unearthing, a rediscovery of clothes that have been hanging there silently, awaiting their turn. Here in the Northern Hemisphere, at the back end of May, there are gradually - almost begrudgingly - more warm days than cool ones. One day soon you'll hang up your coat for the last time and won't think about it again until fall.
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3 weeks ago |
nytimes.com | Melissa Kirsch
I'd just finished and loved Miranda July's novel "All Fours" last year when my colleague Marie Solis wrote a profile of July with the headline, " She Wrote the First Great Perimenopause Novel." This was the first time I'd heard the book mentioned in these superlative terms.
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1 month ago |
nytimes.com | Melissa Kirsch
The first poem I memorized was "Pinkle Purr" by A.A. Milne. I was around seven years old when I encountered it and was immediately enchanted. It's a children's poem, four stanzas, all with the same hypnotic AA/BB/AA rhyme scheme. It's a poem about a kitten, Pinkle Purr, and his mother, Tattoo, and their changing relationship as Pinkle Purr grows up, a sort of "Cat's in the Cradle" for kids, but less sad.
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1 month ago |
nytimes.com | Melissa Kirsch
Last Friday afternoon, in the lobby of a Marriott in downtown Stamford, Conn., attendees of the 47th American Crossword Puzzle Tournament, the annual confab of word nerds hosted by The Times's puzzle editor, Will Shortz, joyously convened. Veteran puzzlers greeted old friends with the excitement of a homecoming. First-timers smiled nervously, eyeing others' name tags in hopes of catching a glimpse of a favorite crossword constructor.
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