Yachts And Michael Silverblatt

Bad Lunch

Mishele Maron | Sun Magazine | 31st December 2026 | U

Cooking on a yacht for the rich is hard. Even the best clients love to point out that they paid a lot of money for the experience. The worst actively monitor the workers, leaving dots of lipstick on windows to check how often they were cleaned. One ordered two dozen different desserts for the same meal. No request was too unreasonable: every private chef knows they are "only as good as my last dish" (4,500 words)

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You’ve Done It Again, Michael

Jynne Dilling | n+1 | 20th February 2026 | U

Publisher's fond memories of the late Michael Silverblatt, beloved public radio broadcaster and host of Bookworm, a show that ran for 33 years and comprised "48,000+ minutes of conversations with every canonical English language writer imaginable". "The most well-read individual on the planet" was startlingly humble and now represents a bygone, and better, period of literary discourse (2,100 words)