Amazing things I've read lately (although amazing is perhaps too strong a word)

(1929)

This is fine, but how about a shot of the Communards making one of the
best albums of late 1986?

Also crazy, though I left the book [Black Sun, about hedonist/suicide publisher Harry Crosby] at my mother-in-law's so cannot quote exactly, was a description of some family (the Van Renssaelears?) being bequeathed twenty miles of land along the Hudson in 1629 (maybe 1689) which they ran "like a duchy."  Nice.