Dwight Garner, senior editor of the New York Times Book Review, reveals this nugget about his personal life on Paper Cuts:

When my wife and I got married, we combined our book collections and made a deal. It’s the kind of brutal arrangement that pretty much guarantees we’re sticking it out until the end.

Here’s how it works: If she ever leaves me, I get to keep all her books. If I ever leave her, she gets mine.

Loser take all. More things in life ought to work that way.

Does the same rule apply to the kids?