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Shop This: Second City Style shows you how to stretch that fashion dollar!
Watch This: The Last Mistress, a NYT Critic’s Pick. Click here to view the trailer.
Read This: Atul Gawande’s article on itching: […]

Lately I find myself balancing checkbooks, checking account balances, keeping spreadsheets, confirming autopay selections and fretting over bills, bills and more bills, so the idea of me buying something new is highly laughable. Instead of my weekend jaunts into the city for a bit of browsing, a bit of cashmere petting and minor purse […]

Hope you’re all doing well & braving the summer heat. Speaking of HEAT, have I got a contest for you! As I’m doing some major housecleaning, preparing for a potential move out west next year (details to come), I thought – instead of giving away items to my friends (WHAT??!), I can give them […]

Wait, there are updates, you query? Oh, indeed. This Sunday, barring torrential downpours, I will be reading at the 440 Gallery in Park Slope.
On July 1, the Australian edition of The Sky Isn’t Visible from Here hits bookstores down under. FOX.
On July 27, I’m headed out east to Palmer Vineyards for the Writers on […]

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Rarely do I ever get star struck. Except maybe that time when I met Joan Didion at the 92 Street Y and you would have thought that I had no mouth, hadn’t been […]

Watch this movie: The Edge of Heaven. A NYT Critic’s Pick, this film is an extraordinary verbalization of the human condition. Achtung, New Yorkers! The engagement at The Film Forum ends on 6.24.
Buy this Bag: Gerard Darel “24 heurers” Barcelona in Metallic Python
Read this Book: Roxana Robinson’s Cost and Maxim Biller’s story collection, Love […]

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Years ago I took an apartment by the water. Weekends I’d spend wading through the fish market, stepping on crushed ice, careful not to slip on cobblestone. Back then, it was just me, […]

When I first received Petite Anglaise from the kind folks at Spiegal & Grau, I was thrilled for the read. After finishing yet another novel from the dialogue master, Joan Didion, catching up on stacks of literary magazines, I was ready for escape, for complete immersion. And the idea of a woman making a […]

Today an old friend (”Laurel” for those of you who have read my book) and I spent the day in the city, catching up, feasting on panini sandwiches, telling old stories and new ones. She’d never visited the Whitney, so ventured uptown to the Whitney’s Biennial, which left me lukewarm (found art isn’t really […]

Boy have I been good. Toting a thermos of Guatemalan roast to work ($350/year savings - check!), brown-bagging lunch 2-3 days/week ($1500/year savings - check!), donning clothing swap attire, and obsessing over the success of the Felicia Sullivan Debt Repayment Plan (briefly thwarted by a cruel letter from The Student Loan Corporation which arrived […]

OK, I admit it. I worship at the church of Google. From smart search to Google Trends to Google Friend Connect to their tireless advancement of search algorithms to the point of artificial intelligence, I am shameless in my admiration of Google and how they have changed the way in which we navigate the web. […]

My dear friend Rebecca Donner is a multi-talented rock star. From penning novels to book reviews for Bookforum, to becoming the lead title in DC Comics’ summer line, Rebecca is a constant source of inspiration. Check out (read: buy) her new graphic novel, Burnout.
Check out Mona’s essay, “In Albania”.
My best friend is a […]

I try not to think of dead things and plumbing. I try not to hear the air conditioner in that bedroom in Encino. I try not to live in Silver Wells or in New York or with Carter. I try to live in the now and keep my eye on the hummingbird. I see no […]