The one that he spots on Christmas Eve in a Sag Harbor antique shop is a "bachelor's table," an all-in-one writing and dining piece just like one that belonged to his father, a New York art critic whom he met just twice.
The Tories managed a remarkable feat last week by announcing two U-turns in one written statement.
In other notes, she speaks of her own despair; in one, written in the winter of her sophomore year, she describes a "February depression".
If a player achieves a hole-in-one, write a "1" in the space provided for that golfer.
A similar analog atmosphere can be found in "No One Writes Back," by Jang Eun-jin, also published in 2009, and translated by Jung Yewon.
In column one write your interests and abilities (What are you good at?) In column two make a list of your difficulties and weaknesses.
"I notice Northampton Town have started with five consecutive draws in League One," writes Mark Mills.
And in Central Asia one wrote with a feather, and therefore needed a smooth paper".
For example, in No One Writes to the Colonel, the main characters are not given names.
"I speak three languages, write in two, dream in one," she wrote in An Introduction, a poem from her first collection, Summer in Calcutta (1965).
