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If you want to be a writer, you've probably suffered from writer's block. Consider Henry Roth, to take just one example. When his novel Call It Sleep was published in 1934, it didn't do well, and Roth gave up writing and worked as a firefighter and teacher, among other occupations. Call It Sleep was re-published in the 1960s, and this time was a success; it sold over a million copies and was hailed as a masterpiece. You would think, with that kind of wind at his back, a writer might g ...

According to Mintel, a market researcher, U.S. handbag market sales reached $8 billion in 2011, up from $6 billion in 2006. I can only assume that this $2 billion increase is due to concurrent rise in sales of those little Kleenexes you keep in purses, but I have no report for that. Perplexed men, including me, ask, "Why this fascination with handbags, enough to cause an increase in sales in five years equal to the Gross National Product of Greenland?" (Note to Greenland: Consider buildin ...