Gene Weingarten Mines Magic From Just 'One Day'
The humorist asked three strangers to pick a random day, month and year out of a hat — December 28, 1986, as it turned out. And then he set out to document every single thing he could for that day.
How much human life goes into a single day? Life and death, effort and rest, love, loss, and striving. Gene Weingarten — who's won two Pulitzer Prizes for his Washington Post feature writing — decided to try and tell stories from a single day in history, and remind us of the preciousness of life in everyday moments.
His new book is . Weingarten calls the book the ultimate extension of his "hammer and nail" technique. "As an editor I once had five
