The Tumbrel Diaries

I have been fossicking through the mountains of paper that gradually accumulated while I was researching and writing The Finger: A Handbook ...

Wha t is beginning to emerge from my inquiries into the custom of drinking champagne from a lady’s white satin slipper is that this weird cr...

There are relatively few scandalous subtopics in my new book, The Finger: A Handbook , except for some damaging rumors that circulated in Lo...

Alas there was obviously no convenient berth in my new book, The Finger: A Handbook , for an exhaustive or even cursory account of the bizar...

After A Brief History of the Smile and The Finger: A Handbook , lately published in New York by Farrar, Straus and Giroux , I am not incl...

A major development in respect of the chair. Using his new laptop computer and a wireless internet connection, Uncle Tony writes from a c...

Most authors run the risk of tackling a subtopic in far greater detail than is necessary, and need to be rescued from that hazardous path by...

The chair in no way relates to my new book, The Finger: A Handbook —an ideal gift, incidentally, for typists, harpists, pianists, erotoman...

A few months ago, before my new book, The Finger: A Handbook , was published in New York by Farrar, Straus and Giroux , I inherited from my...