My friends who know me best know that I am mad for décor. Enter my home and you will encounter a blitzkrieg of magazines, cut-outs, swatches and folders impeccably labeled. In my closet you will find bags of linens, window treatments and replacement door knobs and light fixture plates. In my bedroom you will [...]

Yesterday was supposed to be a picnic-filled day. A day of croquette and flirty dresses, scampering around the park with friends. Raucous was supposed to have ensued. We might have misplaced a shoe while running through cool grass. I was supposed to be surrounded by masses. Instead, I chose to spend time with [...]

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Travel Kitty gets literary! I was thrilled to meet this little fox trot at my reading in Pasadena (I’m the irrelevant fuzz in the background). This morning I was inspired by this photograph [...]

For my fab Australian readers, all two of you, I have terrific news! My memoir, The Sky Isn’t Visible from Here, will be published by HarperCollins Australia in paperback, come July. Naturally, I’m ecstatic, over-the-moon, and all other such happy adjectives, and then I saw the cover. I refreshed the screen on my browser [...]

Yesterday, I glanced at my virtual bookshelf and I was shocked to learn that I’d only read 12 books in 6 months! What happened to the one-book-a-week gal? The voracious reader who read on subway platforms, in nail salons, whilst making dinner? Well, that girl published a book, took some very necessary breaks, and decided [...]

Yesterday was a day when my heart suddenly stopped – and it was a good thing. I can’t divulge many details, but I’ll say this: my book was optioned for film, and I wholly believe in the independent production company behind the project. We’re speaking to an award-winning director, the movie (if made) will [...]

This morning while running errands, I discover some shocking, horrible news. My dry-cleaner, a woman I’ve known and chatted with for over three years, was murdered Thursday evening. I stand in front of the shop, mute, surrounded by women with bags in little carts, toddlers in expensive strollers, and at eight in the morning [...]

Lately, I’ve been unable to write, think, function, etc, as I’m waiting to hear confirmation on some fox (and we mean fox!) news. So until I see some paperwork or get some clarity on all of this potential life-changing news, things will be quiet around here. However, why not indulge in some travel kitty [...]

To say that I receive a lot of books would be a vast understatement. When I greet a chain-smoking George at my neighborhood mailbox depot, he shakes his head and hands me a crate. A fucking crate, people. I receive piles of books from publicists, online marketing departments, authors, authors’ children (and god bless [...]

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This is one of the many things I miss about Los Angeles – being swathed in blankets at The Ambrose while dishing with a sweet friend in the next bed over. Fleeing a hotel whose [...]

Callie Miller was the first person I set eyes on when I arrived in Los Angeles. We spent hours at my favorite cafe talking about our passion for books and the authors who write them (among other things). But the whole time, we didn’t dare take ourselves so seriously. And at one point, a [...]

Compulsively reading: I could give a flying duck about John Updike’s tepid review of Andrew Sean Greer’s very inspired and very magical novel, The Story of a Marriage. I was riveted by Greer’s imaginatively structured debut, The Confessions of Max Tivoli, and couldn’t wait to get my grubby hands on his new work. It’s [...]

Surrounded by sweet children’s books and platters of cookies, macaroons, and brownie bits scattered about the room, last night’s event at Booksmith was a harbinger of all things to come. That sounds a little obtuse, true, but I’m starting to see the horizon (the sky!), and California is becoming a bigger part of it. [...]

Yesterday, you met Emira Mears, author of the must-have book that should be on any entrepreneur’s bookshelf, The Boss of You. The gals are on their whirlwind blog tour, and their giving inside dish on how they launched and grew their incredibly successful web design business. On Monday, you might have caught them chatting [...]

I’m not sure what’s scarier – the fact that I’m 32 and I am totally and utterly infatuated with a show (Gossip Girl) about the scandalous lives of rich teenagers, or the fact that some blond WASP went and killed someone just to see them die, and dumb ass didn’t realize that someone’s always [...]