Noted with Pleasure [by Stacey Lehman]

On Sundays my father brought home the New York Times and a dozen bagels. We spread out the sections on the dining room table and sometimes read aloud to each other. Mostly, we ate our bagels and read in silence. The Book Review used to run "Noted with Pleasure" on its back page, a series for which it excerpted passages from a current book. "Noted with Pleasure" has gone the way of the "author's queries" (who remembers those?) but I've saved a few from the early 1990s. Here are two of my favorites: 

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Comments

[michael malinowitz]

Hi Stacey, your article reminded me of my Grad school weekend job when I worked at the 42nd St. Library (thanks to Ed Bryne). My dad used to fix me an "appetizing" sandwich of lox, white fish and onion on an onion disc with olives on the side, and the Book Review section to take with me. "If I don't think of suicide at least once a year, I get suicidal," was a quote from I.B. Singer (who my father used to read in The Forward) that has stayed with me from those 45 years ago. David also recommended Reader's Block to me---but that was years later. Take care. Regards, Michael

[Greg Bell]

Noted with considerable pleasure.