Following word of Benchley's resignation, freelance offers began piling up. He worked constantly while claiming he was intensely lazy. (According to legend, he submitted a magazine piece titled "I Like to Loaf" two weeks after deadline. His explanatory note: "I was loafing.") He was offered $200 per basic subject article for "The Home Sector", and a weekly freelance salary from "New York World" to write a book review column three times per week for the same salary he received at "Vanity Fair." The column, titled "Books and Other Things," ran for one year and roved beyond literature to mundane topics such as "Bricklaying in Modern Practice." Unfortunately for Benchley, however, his writing a syndicated column for David Lawrence drew the ire of his "World" bosses, and "Books and Other Things" was dropped.