(originally posted on August 22, 2008)
Lyall, a London correspondent for the New York Times, entertained the hell out of me with this somewhat tongue-in-cheek, often illuminating take on what it's like to be an American living and working in the United Kingdom. (Probably, I suspect, because I spent a summer in that fair city a few years back.) It's also, by dint of her being married to Robert McCrum, a strange look at what it's like to be in literary circles over there and have to adapt decorum tactics among journalists and bookish types.
