The Clerk Manifesto

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 5 Stars In a magical world, slightly better and wiser than this one, where everything is pretty much exactly the...

I'm sorry, but I'm not going to be able to give it my all today. I'm making gravlax. This is the part of the making gra...

After spilling our collected kitchen compost onto our kitchen floor I went out for my accustomed walk. But realizing, after a bit of...

For training purposes only: Transcript of a standard phone call for renewing books, received at the library, 1:14 p.m., ...

I was checking in a book and sending it in transit to another library. It was called An Early Start for Your Child With Autism , a...

Dear Publisher:   I hate you. I can't believe I just said that. What a horrible thing to tell someone, especially a strang...

🌟🌟🌟🌟☆ 4 Stars This was the best prosciutteria we went to in Rome. But maybe that's not saying much since there aren...

🌟🌟🌟🌟☆ 4 Stars My take on the Galleria Spada, or Palazzo Spada, has no basis in any historical facts. But like any compelli...

As you know I am hard at work on (co)writing the new book Bob Dylan Tells You How to Live Your Life . Guess who I'm co-writing it w...

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 5 Stars This is the Cafe for the Doria Pamphilj Museum (5 stars too) though one might not even know it entering ...

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 5 Stars So here we are, 25 or so reviews in to my 200 reviews of Rome, and only now we come to the architecture ...

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 5 Stars Among the twin pillars of Rome's coffee, this is the same as it ever was lovely cappuccino. One ...

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 5 Stars I am so excited to tell you about Er Pesciarolo. Not so much because it's so great, though there is t...

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Wait. Let me just collect myself here. I feel all emotional. No, I can go on. I'm okay. You never know wha...

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 5 Stars This one is deep in my heart. And before I go any further I'd like to cite the one Rome review I wrot...

Dear Editor, Guardian Newspaper Online: I was reading one of your infuriating articles, this one about some marketer pretending to ...

🌟🌟🌟☆☆ 3 Stars We weren't much restaurant people in Rome, but we did splurge on a few futile attempts at a really go...