Stuff that came up in conversation

I present for your perusal but do not endorse:

-The photography of Sally Mann

-The fiction of Sherri S. Tepper

Random demographic factoids: one of every three white non-Hispanic residents of Manhattan is Jewish. About one of every eight residents of the five boroughs is Jewish. This is the first time in 50 years that less than 1 million Jewish people have lived in New York City.