Writing Spaces
Fictionaut gets a peek into Maison de Lux, my inner world.
Windowlicker (Summer Edition)
I'm going to Atlantic City for the weekend soon (Ava-style) and might need a little somethin'-somethin' for the beach...
[Early Vanity Fair contributor Helen Brown Norden's out-of-print 1937 essay collection, The Hussy's Handbook, $18 at AbeBooks]
Windowlicker - from the French for window shopping: faire du lèche-vitrine - often appears on Tuesday and Thursdays at 10am EST-ish
On Inspiration
I gave a talk at Book Expo America. You can watch it.
The Female Gaze
Spent a few days upstate with my pal, Jen Bekman, and I'm back now. It was fun to chill out in the woods and wax philosophical; as I observed today at breakfast, I think about totally different things outside of the city. Upon my return, I had dinner with a friend and discussed feminine archetypes and my strange shared expression and birthday with Georgina Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, and got home to discover maybe the best mail ever: a Boudicca shirt I ordered from Jezebel by Leigh Batnick, whose positively wicked cards I've been receiving for ages, and an envelope from my mother containing three silk camisoles and a twenty dollar bill. I'm not sure what that means besides the fact that sublime wisdom can be passed down from generation to generation, without a word, by post. As for me and the moment, I'm off for the summer. No plans to travel as yet, but I like it when the pace of life around here gets slow like honey, like I like it. I'll be back after Labor Day, barring any urgent brilliance. If you're looking for summer reading, here are the books I've been getting the word out about so far this year. Every one a beaut:
YOU or The Invention of Memory by Jonathan Baumbach
Harry, Revised by Mark Sarvas
Please Step Back by Ben Greenman
Do Not Deny Me by Jean Thompson
The Quotable Carine Roitfeld
"I never wear jeans. Jeans are for my assistants."
Windowlicker
I most def do not have room for a hammock, but this is a conceptual feature! In spirit at least, I'm stepping away from the computer to do all my best dreaming in the sunshine. Stay cool.
[Hammock, woven in Nicaragua, $135 at Ten Thousand Villages]
Windowlicker - from the French for window shopping: faire du lèche-vitrine - often appears on Tuesday and Thursdays at 10am EST-is
