links for 2009-08-26

• The New York Times: A critic's opinion
  A restaurant critic retiring gives his opinion on the current "best" restaurants in New York, now that he need no longer constantly sample new ones.
  (tags: the-new-york-times frank-bruni)
• The Paris Review: everybody who'd be anybody
  Interesting view on The Paris Review, and to be frank, I don't entirely disagree.
  (tags: margaret-atwood the-telegraph the-paris-review george-plimpton)
• The life and career of J. Edgar Hoover
  "Jesus Christ! That old cock-sucker!" indeed. For once, I agree with Richard M. Nixon.
• Independent discount & salvage grocery store directory
  Linked from Consumer Reports blog. Interesting, but impractical for me — as everything in Massachusetts is in western Mass., there's nothing in Rhode Island and the ones in New Hampshire are up north.
  (tags: frugality)