New Yorker Fiction editor Deborah Triesman (who has the most beautiful, calming tone to her voice) asks short story authors to read their favorite New Yorker story and talk about it after. I love short stories, but I donโt always grasp it like I want to, and am left agonizing over what I missed.
My favorites:
Jhumpa Lahiri reads Primo Levi
Ottessa Moshfegh reads Sheila Heti
Donald Antrim reads Donald Barthelme
Will Mackin reads George Saunders
Rachel Kushner reads Edna OโBrien
Sterling HolyWhiteMountain reads Roberto Bolaรฑo
Statology A5 notebook
- I usually carry around a blotter-sized, thinner notebook from Atlas Stationers but recently finished it
Fossil bag my friend Joe was going to throw out
- I threw up in my usual vintage Coach bag last week from a migraine (ubering home from work at 9:30AM)
Cigarette case w ID and 2 Chanel lipsticks
- I have a real affinity for lipsticks as I wear it all the time. The chanel is worth way more than the pricepoint, and I only use the two shades
Pepper spray gun
Airpods
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
Business card from Michael Gaylord (a Chicago great)
Pens, rouge stylo
