Small Fry: A Memoir

Shortly before we arrived, my father delivered a lecture about Risk and Consequence that seemed like a performance. “Lis, do you know about Risk and Consequence?” he asked. “It’s a way of evaluating whether to do something, a sliding scale. For example, if the risk is low, but the consequence is high, you might decide not to do something.”

“Bauer Bodoni,” he said, “and Times New Roman, and Garamond.”

“It’s better to do your own job poorly than to do someone else’s job well,”