Next Wednesday, the Lisbeth Salander-inspired line goes on sale at H & M, and Mariah Huehner and I will be at the doors when they open. In honor of this shopping occasion, I’m making some ShopStyle looks based on descriptions of Lisbeth’s clothes in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. This is the first [...]
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It’s all over but the last gigantic chrysanthemum. After a two-and-a-half hour session that at one point had me perilously light headed, here are the results: The day after my birthday is my final appointment. [...] It was eleven p.m. the night before my tattoo appointment, and I was anxious. The artist hadn’t sent me his concept sketch and I was freaking out about irreversibly altering part of my body. I have holes punched here and there (earlobes, top of ear, nose, navel), but nothing so obvious and ostentatious as a [...] ShopStyle is my new hobby. One of the groups I joined has a weekly challenged to create a look based on a book. Last week’s book was Wide Sargasso Sea, which imagines the story of Mr. Rochester’s doomed wife, Bertha. Her name is Antoinette, and she is a Creole in Jamaica, inhabiting an interstitial place [...] As my “What They’re Wearing” posts might have hinted to you, I love the role clothing can play in storytelling. Even if I don’t describe my characters’ clothes, I know what they’re wearing and why. In a similar way, I tend to use what I wear to tell a story about myself — even [...] |
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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