Samuel Rutter News Today

In this original story, Samuel Rutter envisions an afternoon with fictional lepidopterist Matt Damon. The dreams themselves are having dreams in a way that reminds me of Sebald or the Saragossa Manuscript. Even when seated, the narrator engenders a dizziness in the reader. Once standing, dizziness gives way to benign vertigo—a pleasant spin around a butterfly house. Rutter has the rare ability to maintain a sense of bonhomie and comfort while the narrators thoughts flit and spiral.

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However, the officer who made the Prohibition-era claim denied it the next day and apparently left town.

We return to our local hostelries and move to Little Budworth, to look back at the history of two of the local inns.

Plus: a new seasonal restaurant in Brooklyn, a Marisol retrospective — and more recommendations from T Magazine.

Plus: a hotel in a former palace, artisanal Italian sweets and more recommendations from T Magazine.

Plus: playful lamps, Loewe Craft Prize finalists on view in Queens and more recommendations from T Magazine.

The literary journal attracted great names. Its issues sold out. And then it was over — a fate that offers insight into the tenuous place of literary magazines in the American publishing landscape.

Plus: sculptural pepper mills, a fireplace-scented candle and more recommendations from T Magazine.

Plus: a collection of vibrant still lifes, high-tech humidifiers and more recommendations from T Magazine.