I love Dunkin’ as much as I hate Nespresso. I only use Dunkin’ medium roast ground coffee. My husband and I like drip coffee from the ancient Black & Decker maker, and my parents prefer Nespresso, which I hate. We live here in my parents’ house, and we all have different coffee rituals. We are in Fire Island for the summer, in a town called Saltaire. I went downstairs with Monty, who promptly turned on the Tennis Channel while I made coffee. But this is a food diary, not a once-you-have-children-you-never-sleep diary, so moving right along. Our younger son, Sandy, who’s 5, was in our bed and was taking all the covers. My 7 year-old son, Monty, is an early riser, and he shook me awake to show me a blister on his foot (it didn’t hurt he just wanted me to “take a look”). “There’s not a good character,” she says, “and some people really want books where there’s a hero.” Regardless, Rosenblum, who is the chief content officer at Bustle, is now working on her second novel while spending the summer on, yes, Fire Island - minus the murder and adultery, but with a fair amount of gossip (and some Aperol Spritzes). The response has been overwhelmingly positive - the New York Times called it “addictive” and Amazon has optioned it for a series - but its author, Emma Rosenblum, says it’s not for everyone. In many ways, the novel Bad Summer People was designed to be a perfect beach read: a murder mystery, set in a fictional Fire Island town, with all the cheating and gossip a reader might want. Rosenblum, who knows there are no rules on summer vacation: “It’s eight weeks of delicious, drunken chaos.”
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