*A list of other people’s writings that I enjoy
This is an ongoing list that I want/need/have to make a thousand lines longer. More to come!
Literature
The Old Man in the Piazza by Salman Rushdie
The Year of Spaghetti by Haruki Murakami
The Elena Ferrante in my Head by Katherine Hill for The Paris Review
Elena Ferrante Interview for The Paris Review
Italo Calvino The Art of Fiction No. 130 for The Paris Review
Simply Impossible: On Translating Patrick Modiano by Mark Polizzotti
Art and Design
Enzo Mari Interview for Apartamento
B is for Bauhaus by Leyla Spratley for The World of Interiors
Why are artists and designers so obsessed with eggs? by Kitty Grady for House & Garden
Jane Jacobs, Georgia O’Keeffe, and the Power of the Marimekko Dress by Alexandra Lange for the New Yorker
The Mysterious Origins of the Cerne Abbas Giant by Rebecca Mead for the New Yorker
The Mysteries of Mondrian by Peter Schjeldahl for the New Yorker
Introducing Ray Eames by Pat Kirkham
The Ramshackle Street that Shaped a Generation of Artists by Jackson Arn for the New Yorker
Architecture
The Art of Building the Impossible by Burkhard Bilger for the New Yorker
The Pioneering Women of American Architecture by the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation
Richard Neutra’s Architectural Vanishing Act by Alex Ross for the New Yorker
The Walker House by Rudolf Schindler by Andrew Romano for Apartamento
Salone Selected by Elly Parsons for The World of Interiors
Life
What if you could do it all over? The uncanny allure of our unlived lives by Joshua Rothman for the New Yorker
Why Animals Don’t Get Lost by Kathryn Schulz for the New Yorker
Are you Thunder or Lightning? by Sophie Haigney for The Paris Review
Audrey Hepburn’s Favorite Song by Paul Rogers for the New Yorker
Bertrand Piccard’s Laps around the World by Ben Taub for the New Yorker
The Rescued Portrait of my Italian Grandmother by Jill Lepore for the New Yorker
Are you the same person you used to be? by Joshua Rothman for the New Yorker
After a Family Tragedy, the French Food Markets just made Sense to Me by Julia Langvein for Bon Appétit