We Found Our Son In The Subway | NYT

The story of how Danny and I were married last July in a Manhattan courtroom, with our son, Kevin, beside us, began 12 years earlier, in a dark, damp subway station.

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New York Times Staffers Stage Walkout Over Contract Negotiations

Huffington Post with the story.

For background, see Jim Romenesko here and here.

One of the oddities is that the Times, after working to combine its print and digital operations, is proposing separate contracts for print and digital reporters.

In a memo to colleagues, the Newspaper Guild at the New York Times writes, “Any proposal to dismantle the decade of work that has been done to unify the newsroom, securing its place as the world’s premier news organization, could be laughed off as far-fetched legal gimmickry. After all, that would be an act of self-immolation. But even if it’s not worth serious consideration, it has landed just we are heading at full speed toward a crisis over genuine issues like our pay and benefits.”

The most random detail from the wedding announcement for Chris Hughes and Sean Eldridge:

Their first date was at Temple Bar in Cambridge. While Mr. Hughes did not remember what he drank, he is certain that Mr. Eldridge, then 19, did not consume alcohol.

Readers of All Ages, Just Wild About Sendak | New York Times

Three letters to the editor following the death of Maurice Sendak: 

Mr. Sendak taught young readers about the cycle of life, the joys and threats of this world, and the rewards of being alive, in an inimitable way. (Neil Ross)

She came upon what looked like a children’s book, but the pictures on the cover did not look like anything she had ever seen. As she thumbed deeper and deeper into the story, she was transported with Max, and forgot about her world for just a little while. (Kristina Blake)

Parents of insomniac children will miss him greatly. (Christina Munoz)

Greta Gerwig Is Smart. Just Ask Her. | New York Times

Godard said, ‘To make a movie, all you need is a girl and a gun.’ I feel like I’ve been the girl. And now I want a gun.

How Samuel L. Jackson Became His Own Genre | New York Times

The secret to playing these sidekicks, he said, was to approach the part “as if I was the audience member hanging out” with the star — a selfless job, but he didn’t mind. Sometimes the sidekick role was written for a white character, and Jackson played it without color; other times he played the white role as a black man. And sometimes those sidekicks were black characters, like Zeus Carver in “Die Hard: With a Vengeance,” which he was able to embellish with his electric flourishes. “Zeus Carver was the most like me of any character I ever played,” Jackson said.

(This is a good read.)