We can't help but notice that the white Victorian with the pillared front porch at 208 Marlborough Road that the novelist Jonathan Baumbach and his wife, Annette Grant, just sold for $1.8 million, according to city records, bears more than passing resemblance to the one that Bernard Berkman--Mr. Baumbach's fictional avatar, portrayed in his son Noah's 2005 film, The Squid and the Whale, by Jeff Daniels--moves into after separating from his wife.