The new issue of Saranac Review is out in print (though I don't think they've updated the web site yet.) Inside are stories from Myfanwy Collins, Michael Leone, Carol K. Howell, Stuart Friebert, Solon Timothy Woodward, and yours truly.
Friday, September 26, 2008
In Other News
The new issue of Saranac Review is out in print (though I don't think they've updated the web site yet.) Inside are stories from Myfanwy Collins, Michael Leone, Carol K. Howell, Stuart Friebert, Solon Timothy Woodward, and yours truly.
Cover Operations
Book covers = fascinating.
Penguin gave an open call for cover submissions for Sam Taylor's forthcoming novel The Island at the End of the World. Book covers + crowdsourcing = gorgeous.
My favorites are:
See all 25 finalists here.
Penguin gave an open call for cover submissions for Sam Taylor's forthcoming novel The Island at the End of the World. Book covers + crowdsourcing = gorgeous.
My favorites are:
See all 25 finalists here.
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Are we dead yet?
To find out the answer to this question (at least with regard to one possible demise), go here:
hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com.
Love it.
hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com.
Love it.
Thursday, September 11, 2008
What Would You Do...
...with a Tiny House?
Here are some of my ideas. Let's start with the fairly obvious:
1. a writing cabana (sort of like Susan Shreve's backyard office)
2. a long-term vacation home, for summers off at the coast
3. a pool house
4. the perfect place from which to dole out candy on Halloween-- decorate your Tiny House as a sickly sweet cottage, dress as a witch, set up one of those huge gourd ovens with a roaring fire in it in the background, and tell each kid he has to come in before you'll give him any Snickers
5. another Halloween possibility (or any time, really)-- dress up as Emily Dickinson and give the trick-or-treaters pieces of wrinkly yellowed paper with Dove promises rewritten on them in calligraphy
6. finally-- a headquarters for my own chapter of the Babysitter's Club
7. a sweatshop (making high fashion knock-offs for moi, of course)
8. a home of their own for Kirsten, Molly, Kit, Samantha, etc.
9. a hookah den (password necessary)
10. a psycho S&M love shack (see The General's Daughter)
What else can you all come up with?
Here are some of my ideas. Let's start with the fairly obvious:
1. a writing cabana (sort of like Susan Shreve's backyard office)
2. a long-term vacation home, for summers off at the coast
3. a pool house
4. the perfect place from which to dole out candy on Halloween-- decorate your Tiny House as a sickly sweet cottage, dress as a witch, set up one of those huge gourd ovens with a roaring fire in it in the background, and tell each kid he has to come in before you'll give him any Snickers
5. another Halloween possibility (or any time, really)-- dress up as Emily Dickinson and give the trick-or-treaters pieces of wrinkly yellowed paper with Dove promises rewritten on them in calligraphy
6. finally-- a headquarters for my own chapter of the Babysitter's Club
7. a sweatshop (making high fashion knock-offs for moi, of course)
8. a home of their own for Kirsten, Molly, Kit, Samantha, etc.
9. a hookah den (password necessary)
10. a psycho S&M love shack (see The General's Daughter)
What else can you all come up with?
Room for One, Not Two
The first time I ever saw a SmartCar (in the year 2000-nd-nd), I was walking home from a pub near Covent Garden with my friend Stacy. She swung out her arm to stop me, pointed to the tiny gray vehicle tucked neatly between two compacts that looked enormous in comparison, and half-screamed, "It's so cute! I just want to hug it!"
Today's article about tiny houses on nytimes.com discusses a burgeoning movement of building little dwellings whose floor plans range from 75 to 750 square feet. A slide show accompanies the text, and the itty bitty houses it depicts gave me, for the first time in eight years, the urge to exclaim, "I want to hug it!"
Jay Shafer, founder of
Tumbleweed Tiny House Company, lives in a 96-sq. ft. house, and he gives a virtual tour of the space here. His house is designed more compactly than a boat, with such design elements as a miniature electric fire, built-in bookshelves, and a cabinet containing a mini-fridge and-- the clincher for me-- toaster oven! Like many of the tiny houses I found online, Shafer's resembles a fairy tale cottage. No seven dwarves could fit in here, however, and the sharp slant of the walls in the sleeping loft make me itchy just looking at them.
I thought living in my 400-sq. ft. apartment was tight. Still, I find his and the other tiny houses highly appealing-- they're just so cute.
Above: Jay Shafer's tiny house (courtesy of Telstar Logistics).
Today's article about tiny houses on nytimes.com discusses a burgeoning movement of building little dwellings whose floor plans range from 75 to 750 square feet. A slide show accompanies the text, and the itty bitty houses it depicts gave me, for the first time in eight years, the urge to exclaim, "I want to hug it!"
Jay Shafer, founder of
Tumbleweed Tiny House Company, lives in a 96-sq. ft. house, and he gives a virtual tour of the space here. His house is designed more compactly than a boat, with such design elements as a miniature electric fire, built-in bookshelves, and a cabinet containing a mini-fridge and-- the clincher for me-- toaster oven! Like many of the tiny houses I found online, Shafer's resembles a fairy tale cottage. No seven dwarves could fit in here, however, and the sharp slant of the walls in the sleeping loft make me itchy just looking at them.I thought living in my 400-sq. ft. apartment was tight. Still, I find his and the other tiny houses highly appealing-- they're just so cute.
Above: Jay Shafer's tiny house (courtesy of Telstar Logistics).
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