editor’s note One Big, Long, Late Afternoon In journalism, the phrase “bury the lead” captures the idea that you’ve underplayed your most important story. I don’t want to do that here, so let me jump right in and recommend Tali
Clockwise from left, Kim Baker (hair and makeup), Eric Messinger (me), Monica Cotto (stylist), and Whitney Casser (deputy editor), en route to meeting this month’s cupcake royalty.
Rosenblatt-Cohen’s interview with Paul Tough, the author of a new book, How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, And The Hidden
transformed it into the retail juggernaut. I have a predisposition
Power Of Character. A distinguished journalist and a New York
to liking anyone who puts cream cheese on or in anything (as
City parent (my two favorite qualities in a person), Tough ex-
they do in their cupcakes), but the Bauers’ smarts and affability
plores some powerful ideas about the nature of success in school
would have won me over anyway—as it will you (page 40).
and in life—and what a parent’s got to do with it. Or at least those
Having grown up a block from the beach, come summer
are the things we focused on in Tali’s wonderful interview (page
I always feel an outsized yearning to get back to my breed-
47), which ranges from the character-building dividends of chess
ing ground—or at least to be close to a large body of water.
to the need to give older kids the room to fail. (Not on my watch!)
And I’m not even that much of a swimmer—I just love the mix
August is typically one of our smallest issues, but it’s also
of sand, water, and sun, especially in the late afternoon. Even
one of my favorites. I love its mix of back-to-school stories
when I’m working, I like to think of the month of August as
with a little heft (like our interview with Tough), alongside
one big, long, late afternoon, and hopefully this issue will add
lighter stories meant to squeeze every last bit of fun out of
some joy and inspiration to yours.
summer, like the delicious stories on food trucks (page 12) and grilling (page 64). This issue is also sweetened by our cover interview with Mia and Jason Bauer, who one day opened a mom-and-pop cupcake shop on the Upper West Side called CRUMBS, and then
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