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Will Pavia

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New York correspondent for The Times

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Will Pavia@willpavia.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Harper Lee's '50s short stories, published tomorrow, are wonderful. There's one about attempting to sweet talk her way out of parking ticket by quoting Victorian literature. Sadly, the NYPD officer is unmoved www.thetimes.com/article/b4ff...

Revealed: Harper Lee’s unseen stories — published at last

Eight neatly typed short stories by the To Kill a Mockingbird author were discovered after her death. Will Pavia reads them and talks to her nephew — plus read Lee’s letter to Oprah Winfrey and how sh...

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Will Pavia@willpavia.bsky.social · 10mo ago

The cameras roll, the back of a lorry opens and out comes a swirl of dry ice and a silver DeLorean. “And this guy jumps out and he goes, ‘MARTY!’ ” says Michael J Fox. “I’m, like, ‘Holy shit!’" He shot that film with no rehearsal. It was wonderful to chat with him www.thetimes.com/article/1d91...

Michael J Fox: ‘Dying? I just haven’t had the time’

The actor has lived with Parkinson’s disease since he was 29. Now 64, he’s jamming with Coldplay at Glastonbury and has written a new book about the film that made him a megastar. He takes Will Pavia ...

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Will Pavia@willpavia.bsky.social · 11mo ago

I spent the day outside Bruce Springsteen's old bungalow, hoping to spot the Boss returning, as he apparently does each year, to solemnly contemplate the place where it all began. It was just me and about fifty other people www.thetimes.com/us/news-toda...

My day waiting for Bruce Springsteen with his most ardent superfans

The Boss says he returns to the bungalow where he wrote Born to Run on every anniversary of the album’s release. The Spring-Nuts have taken him at his word

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Will Pavia@willpavia.bsky.social · last yr.

I talked with Kelsey Grammer about piecing together the awful details of his sister’s murder, and about a glimpse of heaven, from a surfboard: ‘I looked up and saw the sun through the wave and it happened… an awareness suddenly that, oh, I’m in heaven already.’ www.thetimes.com/article/df64...

Kelsey Grammer: The truth about my sister’s horrific murder

The actor is best known for playing the psychiatrist Frasier in the hit sitcom. But behind the success lay his drink and drug abuse due to the death of his sister Karen

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Will Pavia@willpavia.bsky.social · last yr.

I went on patrol with the fashion policeman Nicky Campbell (or at least we talked about crimes he has investigated, and he gently roasted my outfit) 🔓 This story is free to read www.thetimes.com/article/dd0f...

Meet Nicky Campbell, the brutal red carpet ‘fashion police’

It’s awards season and there’s a new star in town: Nicky Campbell, the former Vogue assistant whose blunt appraisals of celebrities’ outfits have turned him into a TikTok phenomenon

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Will Pavia@willpavia.bsky.social · 2y ago

My six-year-old tells me that the eggs we have bought do not have bird flu. He is confident of this because the hen portrayed on the box, in a cartoon diagram, 'looks pretty healthy'

Will Pavia@willpavia.bsky.social · 2y ago

I had an appointment with a doctor recently who is also, secretly, the author of four of the bestselling books of 2024, known to her fans as Freida McFadden. (I say appointment, I mean interview obviously. Still, it felt like the set up for one of her thrillers) www.thetimes.com/article/dbb0...

Meet ‘Freida McFadden’, the doctor hiding her secret life as a bestselling author

The Housemaid author has sold 17 million books and topped book charts around the world — but even her hospital boss doesn’t know about her double life

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Will Pavia@willpavia.bsky.social · 2y ago

A fifteen foot bronze statue of Donald Trump will be unveiled in DC today, the ‘Don Colossus’, polished up to shine like the bathroom fixtures in Mar-a-Lago. I went to meet the sculptor, at the Ohio farm where it was cast www.thetimes.com/article/c976...

‘Don Colossus’: why a 15ft bronze Trump statue will tower over Ohio

‘Crypto bros’ have clubbed together for a $400,000 tribute to Donald Trump’s defiance of his assassination attempt — ready in time for his inauguration

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Will Pavia@willpavia.bsky.social · 2y ago

Attempting to read The Little History of the World to a 6-year-old in 2024: Me: 'In the ruins of Ur they found tombs as old as the Pyramid of Cheops, containing treasures and a great many tablets on which was written...' 6 yr-old: 'Wait! What was a tablet doing in a tomb? Was it an iPad? etc etc'