In their essay "The Cassoulet Saved Our Marriage," Deborah Copaken Kogan and Paul Kogan write about Cassoulet Day, an annual gathering that they hold for twenty or thirty people to reap the rewards of three days spent chopping carrots and rendering duck fat.
A powerful story of survival in extremes, conveying with brutal honesty the physical and psychological horrors of three days spent in appalling pain, dehydrated and hungry, and haunted by the thought that he would find base camp abandoned.
MARY ELLEN MARK Mark, a frequent contributor to this magazine, shows vintage black-and-white photographs and maquettes of her 1979 book, "Ward 81," a harrowing record of thirty-six dayspentnt with the female patients in the lock-down ward of an Oregon mental hospital.
Contents include interviews with residents of Lafayette Park's towers and town houses; archival materials from the complex's history; an account of nine days spent trying to climate-control a corner apartment; and essays on Mies in Detroit, the Lafayette Park landscape, bird-watching and a record of bird-strike deaths (birds and plate glass don't mix).
Sinatra showed up for a total of nine days, spending no more than two hours in front of the camera each time.
To the Editor: I've been to Cape Town twice, and the highlight of each trip was two days spent touring the townships.
Five of the twelve days spent on tests are taken up by the reading assessment done on the iPod Touch.
Over the course of two days, Chris spent more time flying the skies of Hyrule than he did sleeping, or doing pretty much anything else.
It was now the afternoon of April 24, a day before the order of noncompliance was supposed to come due, and the first of two days we spent more or less entirely with the Oath Keepers.
But much of my time — a total of five days — was spent ogling old cars.
