Vera Wang, apparently. She designed the fantastic all-black costumes that Evan Lysacek work in his gold-medal-winning routines last week. (Last season, his costume designer was the late Alexander McQueen.) The short program costume featured a high collar, black feathers at the cuffs, black gloves, irregularly criss-crossed strips of black sequines, and, I don’t know, some [...]
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All Things Considered, which, along with Morning Edition, makes up the entirety of my non-satiric news consumption, is having a short story contest. Stories for the “Three-Minute Fiction” contest have to be no more than 600 words and based on the photograph at the link. I’m intending to write something for it, but, unfortunately, [...] I have anxiety issues. My mind finds potential problems and obsesses over them. When I was in grad school, I would close my eyes at night with a roar in my ears, thoughts of reading and essays creating a wash of mental sound that kept me awake at night and made my eyes twitch in [...] My latest Publishers Weekly Life in Comics column is up — and of course it has to do with the baby. It’s fascinating to me how the little creature has managed to wrap my whole existence — for now — around his little tiny pinkie finger. It’s necessary, of course, the result of ample oxytocin [...] |
My Opium Den
After some thinking, I realized why I didn't finish this book (even as I racked up late fees from the library): I found the subject matter, the history of the region of England called Sunderland, interesting, but there was nothing about the...
Lovely art by Camilla D'Errico (who should be listed as a co-author) provide mood and texture for this story of a troubled young girl whose fantasy life becomes a bit too real when she visits a website called Make5wishes.com. The authors ar...
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