A lovely memoir of meeting the legendary critic when she was retired and in her Massachusetts home. Money quote:
Her house is stone and shingle and very large, and I saw a deer duck into the trees at the corner of the yard as I came up the driveway. I knocked on the screen door and she looked out. She was sitting in a wooden chair. "My God, you’re just a kid," she said.
She told me to open the door. I tried it. I told her it was locked. She told me the lock had been stiff for 20 years, and that I should just fiddle with it. She said she knew it was 20 years because she’d just finished paying off her mortgage.
I fiddled with the lock for a minute and got the door open. We shook hands and I said: "It’s very nice to meet you. How are you?"
"Old," she said.
The Dish 