"Throughout the summer of 2013, I harbored a secret hankering for a country house. This was a very private manifestation of a very public theory I'd articulated over almost the entire four decades (give or take) I'd lived in Manhattan. That is, if you don't feel the urge to leave town at least three times every two weeks, you're not really living in the City." Thus begins The Bucknoll Cottage Chronicles, the story of one intrepid...