When Kate* announced that her boyfriend of two months was moving in with her, the same apartment where her ex-boyfriend’s paintings still decorated the walls, where the cable bills (which were still in his name), were delivered, I nearly choked on my dumpling. We were in Taiwan, on holiday, and my best friend informed me […]

today, newspapers read: $200,000! even in new york, affordable apartments! when will the real estate bubble burst?! at a haute fete, a very glamorous and well-known writer talks at me, tells me about her rather charming wedding, inquires after my book and literally falls asleep standing up while i tell regale my plans to launch […]

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Passing Lane, originally uploaded by Ed Karjala.

at the gym, i was pedaling on a bike. i flipped through magazines, dog-eared a few pages of Joan Didion’s After Henry. And for a moment, I closed my […]

“As an author, perhaps I’m supposed to side with doom-filled writer Peter Sacks in the, “Isn’t it awful how few people read and how America is becoming dumbed down?” conundrum, but while I can’t quite imagine how one gets through a day, let alone a year, without reading, the rest of Sacks’ recent Huffington Post […]

Things have been precarious lately. Off-kilter. Not having a partner whilst seeing everyone else I know and love couple off, engage, bear children, is becoming more difficult to bear. I’ve heard all the lectures before, I tell them to myself: it’ll happen when it needs to happen (like everything else in your life that […]

You knew this was coming, didn’t you? A whole day filled with pumpkins and autumnal squash. The girls haven’t even arrived and I’ve been busy - jetting downtown to Whole Foods to pick up a week’s worth of supplies, and surverying the lush and vibrant fall produce - rows of aubergines, leafy greens. Plump apples […]

Does your closet give you vertigo? Have you hidden that baby doll dress circa 1996, Laura Ashley? Or do you have a style tip you want to share? The perennially chic Natalie is hosting a cool contest for a very fab book.
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Yummier, originally uploaded by Thinking Violet.

I LOATHE SUMMER! I LOATHE SUMMER! There, I said it. I hate shirts that stick to skin, my corpse-pallor which refuses to turn pink and gold, and the oppressive heat […]

We face one another picking apart our chicken cutlet parmesans. While my mother complains about the thieving coked-up whores in her diner, I assemble piles of mozzarella cheese — eyes transfixed on the clock. I keep time; will it to pass by. It’s 1996 and my mother and I sit through one of our semi-annual […]

In her acclaimed debut novel, Prep, Curtis Sittenfeld created a touchstone with her pitch-perfect portrayal of adolescence. Her prose is as intensely realistic and compelling as ever in The Man of My Dreams, a disarmingly candid and sympathetic novel about the collision of a young woman’s fantasies of family and love with the challenges […]

The swap was a smashing success! The girls came over and we bitched, swapped and ooh’d and ahh’d over our fabulous finds. I scored at least three pairs of shoes and some choice cashmere sweaters, handbags and loads of pants and jeans. Everyone left carting heavy bags and incredible smiles. What could be more […]

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Reeses peanut butter cup chocolate cupcake, originally uploaded by honey drizzle.

the girls are coming over this weekend, en masse, and we’ll be swapping clothes, accessories, dvds, books, etc and being all eco. and lest we […]

i have never been much of a make-up girl. there was the blue eyeshadow debacle of 1987 and the peach phase of 1996-1997. there was the misapplied shadow, the overblush, and dare i say glitter movement of 2000? and trust me, my make-up misadventures would make you weep.
how about we not talk about it […]