Age of Grace
Grace Coddington, creative director of US Vogue, spoke in New York last night about her new memoir, Grace. The flame-haired former …
Category Archives: books
Michael Chabon, on the record (store)
Michael Chabon has been a favourite writer of mine ever since I devoured his Pulitzer-winning novel The Amazing Adventures of …
Classy broad
Last night Zadie Smith read from her new novel, NW, at Barnes & Noble in Union Square. With a red …
Shades of Gray
It’s not even really winter yet and I’m not coping. Spending all my spare time swaddled in bed with the …
Something borrowed
Having absolutely no budget for recreation, and limited access to technology (the bachelor pad has no tv, no internet, and …
Summer at the roofline
At the moment I’m reading Underworld by Don DeLillo, and while I’ve got about 3/8ths left to go I’m pretty …
Welcome
“Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and …
Shootin the shit with Hunter S
This is pretty old, but still fun. A fresh faced Conan O’Brien tried for years to get Hunter S Thompson …
Toilet humour
LOL is a tired old acronym but it does bear thinking about. How often does something actually make you laugh …
Ever vigilant, ever true
So you come home after a long day of fighting crime and kicking evil villain arse and all you wanna …
