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Times
01-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Times
How to deal with a midlife crisis — get in a car and keep driving
The Channel 4 sitcom Peep Show has an unimprovably bleak line on the letdowns of ageing: 'Your expectations get ground down and down until finally you settle for a life that would have mortified you 20 years ago, but now seems like a blessed relief.' The literary exemplar of such stoical suffering is poor Stoner, the perpetually thwarted Midwestern academic in John Williams's 1965 novel of the same name. But what if Stoner escaped his failed marriage and professional disappointments and embarked on a road trip to California? That's more or less the setup of The Rest of Our Lives. Ben Markovits's 12th novel is a slim study of middle-aged ennui set on the US highway, scattered with its English-American author's familiar interests such
Axios
12-03-2025
- Axios
This is the most wish-listed Airbnb in Massachusetts
Airbnb shared its most-wish-listed homes, and in Massachusetts, that's the historic Gingerbread House Tower in the Berkshires. The intrigue: The home is part of the Santarella Estate, which English-American sculptor Sir Henry Hudson Kitson called home until his death in 1947. The Tyringham estate has been passed from one family to the next and is now open for weddings and Airbnb stays. Zoom in: The Gingerbread House Tower sits on four acres with gardens, a lily pond, stone bridges ... and parking for up to two cars. In typical Airbnb fashion, the listing mentions a host of amenities — a television, microwave, Ninja Foodi XL, and coffee maker, along with the usual ("a bohemian bedchamber" with a queen canopy bed). Yes, but: Pets aren't allowed. The guests say they may make an exception for a small pet with prior approval and an additional fee.
