10 Things We're Doing Besides Reading the Room
hat odd sense you have that reading has somehow become all the rage lately? It’s real. And you have Lisa Lucas, executive director of the National Book Foundation and bona fide cool girl, to thank. We snagged her on the podcast just as she was getting ready to throw the literary world’s most important party of the year. Best thing short of an invite, right this way.
erica’s things
Keeping tabs on the (potential) Marfa of Maine.
Filing Alison Roman’s new cookbook Dining In under “Everything I Want to Eat Right Now.” Also worth noting: The design by Elizabeth Spiridakis Olson is dream city.
Supplementing a viewing of Hocus Pocus with a reading of this article about why that movie feels especially everywhere this Halloween season.
Waiting for Imperfect Produce to come to Brooklyn (and relishing in their fruitful use of googly eyes in the meantime).
Really connecting with Katie Couric.
claire’s things
Applauding the team over at The Ripped Bodice for dealing with the diversity issue in their own industry. (More on America’s favorite-slash-only romance-novel bookstore here.)
Aggressively bingeing season two of Dissect, a podcast that takes both itself and Kanye just a bit too seriously, but is engrossing nonetheless.
Scratching an itch for bentwood furniture with these minimalist beauties.
Feeling a little better about one of my guiltiest musical pleasures. (If “Thunder” is not on your running mix…)
Begrudgingly reversing my stance that stretching is boring and overrated. May be too soon to tell, but I think this one move has changed my life.
turn it up to 11 - from claire
Jazzing up any outfit in one step (or two, depending on how you do your math?).
