As Nigel sits in his kitchen late on a Wednesday night and pours himself another coffee, his phone finally vibrates.
I had heard versions of Shange's monologues before — whispered in my Brooklyn kitchen, late at night, far from the men who would be anatomized by their revelations.
"I just want to be like everybody else," Sam Mackenzie says, slow-dancing with her father in an empty White House kitchen late at night.
Loath as you may be to admit it, chances are that at some point you have found yourself in the kitchen late at night, devouring some sweet, salty or carb-rich treat even though you weren't hungry.
"Do you hear the sound he's making?" Gail asked me as we sat in her kitchen, late one evening, with Shurvon put to bed in his room close by.
And it is this more vulnerable Napravnik that sits down in her kitchen late one Monday night in early January: that of someone poignantly aware of forces that are beyond her control.
The couple's adopted fourth grader had arrived at school with a plastic bag of cookie wrappers stapled to his shirt — his punishment, the Gateses said, for breaking into the kitchen late at night to binge on a bulk box of Fig Newtons.
I settled into Anusasananan's kitchen late one gloomy January morning, and within an hour she walked me through three classic preparations: braised eggplant with pork and mushrooms (an accessible dish that makes fast work of eggplant); stir-fried pork and pineapple; and braised chicken wings in bean sauce.
But unlike Richard Avedon, who often had a strobe light go off when people were unprepared, or Diane Arbus, who once said that taking a photograph was "like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies," Mr. Bey insists that the process be collaborative.
In a friend's kitchen late at night, an agitated and weary Mr. Cumberbatch recorded his audition on an iPhone — "I was pretty strung out," he said, "so that went into the performance" — and sent it to Mr. Abrams, only to be told the director was also on vacation.
