Jonathan writes:
Since I first moved to the vanished city where I picked up–nay, purchased–a Village Voice each week to read his column, Times fashion hound and sometime Talk contributor Guy Trebay’s words have accompanied me along the borderlands between two New Yorks, the one I know and the one I don’t yet.
Still braced by Emily’s encyclical on the care that can add grace to regular communication at little cost, I was happy to see Trebay’s declaration of faith in physical Christmas cards, be they inspired divinely (from a holiday fair at Brick Church on the Upper East Side), or Divinely (by John Waters). Trebay is one of six writers in the Times identifying “The One Luxury I Won’t Do Without” this year (illustrated warmly by Greg Clarke, who has done at least one lovely New Yorker cover that I know of).