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Buddy Johnson feels most comfortable in restaurants. He visits four a day sometimes. The chatter and the clatter of cutlery offer the illusion that he’s less alone.
The restaurant he goes to most these days is BuddyFreddys, where the waitresses greet him by name and he eats for free. Sitting at his table, he can see [...]

At our table: Vac, Pete, Lee, Barbara, me and Janine. Janine, who incidentally double-majored at the University of Wisconsin in journalism and dance, got to talking about the story she’s working on here this weekend.
This is what she wrote in her workshop proposal:
For the past three years I have had a growing stack of papers [...]

Meghan Murphy, Adam Bosch and Christian Livermore are here from the Times Herald-Record here in New York’s always gorgeous mid-Hudson Valley. David Filkins, Scott Waldman and Pete Iorizzo are here from the Times Union in Albany. Tim Bontemps is here from the New York Post. Lee Hill Kavanaugh is here from the Kansas City Star. [...]