NANCY DAVIDOFF KELTON

Below is an essay I posted here last year. It was published as an op-ed piece in The Buffalo News last June. The above picture was taken...

Because it’s almost June. June, June, June. Just because it’s June. June. June. No sparkling prose. No flat prose either. Just...

On Saturday, I attended the Dramatists Guild Rejection Slip Festival at a bar in Brooklyn near Prospect Park. I recently joined the...

(The below essay was originally published in The Boston Globe Magazine on May 9, 2010. When you finish reading it, there's a little "Mom"...

Watched “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” crew shoot an episode for the third season on Fifth Avenue between 11th and 12th Streets. Rachel...

(updated version of April 3, 2012 Passover/Easter Blog) On Easter Sundays when I was young We went to the Buffalo Zoo To participate in...

Joyce Carol Oates did not attend the Hunter Writing Center Dinner at the Sherry Netherland honoring Joyce Carol Oates. Her husband was...

(Peter, the Strand events coordinator, with me in the rare book room) What NEVER gets old or unexciting for me: --my love and gratitude...

Russell Baker August 14, 1925-January 21, 2019 Last Wednesday, I dimmed the lights for the first minute of class in honor of Russell...

The last print issue of Glamour (January 2019) is on the newsstands. One of my earliest listicles, “31 Things I’m Not Going to do Wrong...