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The Shoes
Posted on January 1, 2013 | 1 CommentMoments after the memorial they stepped out into less complicated air. It was warm for an early winter day; the atmosphere was grey and humid and still, despite the traffic sounds, and the people movement beyond. Clutching his friend’s hands,... -
Fiona Apple
Posted on June 29, 2012 | No CommentsSome people stay open to experience, despite the slings and arrows of life’s always outrageous misfortunes. To be a pretnaturally hopeful person is to generally stand apart from one’s more mundane friends and family, among whom complaint too often passes... -
The Ultimate: Etta Without Tears
Posted on January 23, 2012 | 5 CommentsThe incomparable Karen Baccouche, sometimes known professionally as Karen Binns. Self-creation par excellence. Native of Brooklyn, New York, lately of London, a fashion stylist, publisher, and the fine possessor of a language one is not likely to hear from anyone... -
Modesty: Lydia Davis and Duro Olowu
Posted on September 27, 2011 | No CommentsLydia Davis writes stories whose central plot point is the very act of thinking. In a small and beautiful chapbook called “The Cows” (2001) she describes a field with cows across the street from her house near Pittsville, in upstate... -
Style and Jane Bowles
Posted on July 19, 2011 | No CommentsDiana Vreeland once described style by saying “It helps you get down the stairs.” What if you have to get down the stairs with a limp? The brilliant Jane Bowles (1917–1973) walked with a limp–the result of a teenage illness....
