25-year-old Billy Joel performing "Piano Man" live on the Old Grey Whistle Test, 1975. #BillyJoel

Did you have a terrific birding trip to Iceland in May, but then lose your SD card with your 3,700 bird photos in Norfolk? I have it!

Just caught my tomatoes trying to sneak out.

The Cranberries performing "Dreams" at Woodstock, 1994. No cellphones. Everybody enjoying the moment. This era was an absolute gem.

Can you say it’s a dream come true when you never dreamed you’d ever have a profile feature in the New York Times? 😱 Huge thanks to the wonderful ⁦Sarah Lyall⁩ ⁦for the words and Charlotte Hadden for the pictures 🙏 nytimes.com/2024/09/25/boo…

Couldn’t have done it without you David. 👍🏼🙏🏼

Vikings really did The Parent Trap handshake after an interception in London. Incredible pop culture awareness.

In honor of Nobel Prize Week, please enjoy my favorite tweet of all time

I'm thrilled to be included in the excellent The Sunday Long Read, one of my favorite things every week. Thank you, Noah Schactman!

“They paid us to memorize the poems,” [Katherine] Rundell said of her parents. “I was a very mercenary kid, and had quite a retentive memory.”> Sarah Lyall nytimes.com/2024/09/19/boo…

Hugh Grant on his evolution from rom-com hero to horror villain: “I used to do interviews where I was Mr. Stuttery Blinky, and it’s my fault that I was then shoved into a box marked ‘Mr. Stuttery Blinky.’” nyti.ms/3Nv7g54

Has everything we've ever thought about Hugh Grant been wrong? The mind boggles. Sarah Lyall tells all. nytimes.com/2024/10/17/mov…

Nativity season is upon us! My son has been cast as a wise man. My daughter, on the otherhand -

NEWS: More than 200,000 subscribers have canceled their digital subscriptions to the Washington Post after the revelation that owner Jeff Bezos blocked an endorsement of VP Harris. That's about 8 percent of WaPo's subscriber base - a staggering sum MORE npr.org/2024/10/28/nx-…

I subscribe to the The Washington Post because it provides excellent, vital news and analysis; because it employs journalist friends I both admire and envy (Mary Jordan and Kevin Sullivan among them); and because, dammit, we need more light and less darkness.

Greenwich Library’s Signature Series was thrilled to welcome best-selling author amor towles to Greenwich Library last week in an engaging conversation with New York Times writer at large Sarah Lyall. 📚 🎥Watch the entire program on our YouTube channel: youtube.com/live/A3OYIsY5d…

The best Rock Performances of 2024. I open thread 🧵 1. Billy Joel at 74 years old performing “Piano Man” live at Madison Square Garden in New York.

Now through 01/15, save 70% on the "Anglo Files: A Field Guide to the British" audiobook by Sarah Lyall audiobooks.com/promotions/pro…

This looks like the only thing I can afford at Tiffany's. Sorry mom.

“As the great Canadian poet Joni Mitchell said, ‘You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone.' The possibility of it all being gone has raised our consciousness of how great we are.” Lovely interview of Mike Myers by Sarah Lyall. nytimes.com/2025/04/26/sty…