Big thanks to Melanie Locay, research director, who just gave me a key to The Allen Room where I’ve got a year’s residency to write my next chapters in one of the best kept secret hideouts in NYC. Don’t tell anyone! There’s a room in the NYPL (42nd St. branch) dedicated solely to authors seeking refuge and research, funded by bequest of Frederick Lewis Allen, a former editor of Harper’s magazine. I heart NY.