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By Judy D'Mello 10/20/03 12:00am

One Way to Order the World: Play Host to Everyone Else

The Duchess Who Wouldn’t Sit Down: An Informal History of Hospitality , by Jesse Browner. Bloomsbury, 198 pages, $23.95.

If Emily Post is the Guru of Gentility and Martha Stewart the Diva of Domesticity, then Jesse Browner is the Curator of Canapés. With none of the cloying mannerisms of those other prescribers of household Read More

By Judy D'Mello 5/12/03 12:00am

A Dark, Minimalist Tale: Postpartum on Upper West Side

A Mouthful of Air , by Amy Koppelman. MacAdam/Cage, 212 pages, $23.

Two years ago, I was giddily anticipating motherhood. Yet when my son burst into a fluorescent world, wailing, I sank into darkness. I saw the baby as an intruder, kidnapper of my husband, spoiler of my wonderfully uncluttered life. Dutifully I ooh Read More