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Posts Tagged Magazines

It’s a Wild, Wild Life

I wrote the home story in the August/September issue of ReadyMade. It’s a tour of designers Tony Moxham and Maurice Paniagua’s truly surreal Mexico City apartment.
I sort of wanted the piece to be titled “Rumpus Rooms,” but ReadyMade EIC Andrew Wagner says he can’t stand the word “rumpus,” and that seems fair enough.
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The GOOD Guide to Better Neighborhoods

More for GOOD. I contributed a handful of pieces to the GOOD Guide to Better Neighborhoods, in GOOD 19 (the neighborhoods issue). It’s all online; my bits include:
How to Throw a Block Party
How to Meet Your Neighbors (Without Seeming Like a Crazy Person)
How to Get a Billboard Taken Down (Or at Least Complain About One)
How [...]


Relaxing With GOOD and ReadyMade

Four authors from GOOD and three from ReadyMade, of whom I am one, have teamed up to write a special section in GOOD’s Winter 2010 issue. The GOOD (and ReadyMade) Guide to Slowing Down is online now, and if I say so myself, it’s a fun read.


Book Review: ‘A Map of Home,’ by Randa Jarrar

I have a book review of Randa Jarrar’s coming-of-age novel, A Map of Home, out today in the L Magazine, NYC’s downtown freebie.
I’ve admired the L Magazine since it started up in ‘03-ish, and I am super psyched to be in its pages.


Zuboff on ‘the Frozen Economy’

I’m digging Shoshana Zuboff’s column in Business Week (actually, to my surprise, I’m finding a lot of swell stuff to read in Business Week) about observing the economic panic of her neighbors in Maine.
She invokes the Great Depression and dramatically, but also bravely, she proposes opening our conversation about the economy way, way up:
"Discontinuous change [...]