Quote of the day
At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged.
Alec Wilkinson

Born: 1952 (age 73)
Bio: Alec Wilkinson is a writer who has been on the staff of The New Yorker since 1980. According to The Philadelphia Inquirer he is among the "first rank of" contemporary American "literary journalists... of Naipaul, Norman Mailer and Agee.
Known for:
- The Ice Balloon (2011)
- Midnights, a year with the Wellfleet police (1982)
- Moonshine: A Life in Pursuit of White Liquor (1985)