Other book notes

By Megan McArdle
I also just finished Psmith, Journalist, which had somehow escaped my Wodehouse collection until now. This I recommend unreservedly. I especially recommend it while watching The Wire, as I am now doing, because Wodehouse's humorous description of New York City gangs before World War I is startlingly similar to the Baltimore streets, except with different slang and Irish names.

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