| Currents | Q&A: Do Try This at Home Questions for Tom Blake, a licensed electrician who creates one-of-a-kind lamps with his creative and domestic partner, Amy Pasco. feeds.nytimes.com |
At Home With Wendy Burden: A Vanderbilt Descendant Laughs Off Dysfunction Wendy Burden, author of the memoir “Dead End Gene Pool,” has written of the seamier side of the blue-blood life: addiction, neglect and syphilis. feeds.nytimes.com |
Currents | Books: Chronicling New York’s Buildings The fifth edition of the AIA Guide to New York City, with many more buildings since the last edition in 2000, will be published next week. feeds.nytimes.com |
Letters: Letters on the Characters in a 43-Room House Readers comment on the colorful characters in a sprawling 195-year-old house. feeds.nytimes.com |
What to do with pots of perennials Helen Yemm advises a reader who has grown perennials in pots and wants advice on when to put them in her garden. telegraph.co.uk |