Two People Named Anya Wrote About Hurricane Sandy for n+1

I am one of them. I am not the one who received the National Book Foundation’s “5 under 35″ honor. That’s the other one. You should read both of our pieces. Two Anyas, one… Read More →

Reading and Loving

With Emily Books, of course.

Move Over, Coach Taylor

Coach, I love you, and your speeches have inspired me to greatness, or at least helped me aspire to greatness. But this speech by Obama? It crushes every pep talk you ever gave. Could… Read More →

It’s Official

I don’t weigh enough to be outside.

And then I was served evacuation orders at the bar

Can’t stop thinking about Malala

Gnarly Never Dies

My brilliant, talented, and very, very cool former student Shriya Manian recently started a clothing label/artist collective, Cote-Armour, with her friend Izzy Howell. Their aesthetic is solid and their stuff is niiiiiice. Check it/buy them out. I am… Read More →

What Markets Can And Cannot Achieve

I’m in Boston at the moment, chasing down my nephews while my sister and her husband kick it in Italy. As I was driving around on Friday, I heard Michael Sandel, one of… Read More →

Malala Yousafzai

 

Reading and Loving (So Much)

Ni hao, New Jersey

By the power Vested in Me

I married two of my closest friends this past weekend, and it was absolutely a life highlight. It was an honor, a joy, and was even more emotional than I thought it would… Read More →

Reading and Loving

 Both the best and the worst thing to read after a summer in Asia.

Want

to be here. (Via)

My Neck, My Back

I am a fan of political humor, but not even the best jokes can make me laugh these days. So much of what’s happening in American politics scares me, and I don’t want… Read More →

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Out of this world

(via)   

Legit

Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language

MoMA’s Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language will be gone by the time I am back in NYC. Someone needs to see it for me this week.

Crowd Licentiousness

I could not love this picture more. (Via)

America’s Sweetheart

Martin Schoeller’s photographs of Gabby Douglas for Time’s Olympic double issue are great. All his photos in the issue are fantastic, but these are particularly striking because they are so editorial and on-trend, and… Read More →

Finally

I’ve been wondering who was going to give our generation the 9-5 remake it deserves. I’m guessing Khloe is Doralee?

Reading and Loving

(thanks to Annie for showing me the way)

Life Highlight

Hiking The Great Wall via Zhenbiancheng.

Gore Vidal Dead at 86

I met him in 2007 at the release party for “Point to Point Navigation.” He was a total shit talker, and totally charming.