*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

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