The examined life
''THIS BUSINESS of conversation is a very serious matter," says the title character of Oliver Wendell Holmes's ''The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table" (1858), a celebrated collection of prose sketches that appeared in the fledgling Atlantic Monthly in 1857-58. According to David Faflik, author of a forthcoming book on boarding houses and the ''American urban literary imagination," the Autocrat was ... (Full article: 344 words)
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