Reading LRB and NYRB personal ads
Catherine Keenan browses the succinct, quirky personals in the London Review of Books, the New York Review of Books and other highbrow publications. "In many ways, the form is particularly suited to writers, academics and intellectuals, who often display themselves to their best advantage on the page, where dress sense and dashing good looks don't count for as much as cleverness and an ease of expression."
