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woman about town. staff writer @newyorker. also: writing a book for @aaknopf + a coffee table book for @penguinrandom. away from here, mostly.
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Nov 15, 2022 6 tweets 2 min read
i don't want to tell you how to live but this is the perfect weather in which to begin the eight part pbs documentary about nyc episodes 3 and 5 are the real bangers but lately i have a soft spot for episode one and the ways it digs into how terrible lord cornbury was at everything
Nov 11, 2022 6 tweets 2 min read
ok doing a flash perfume genie while this site still exists. here's how you play: tell me a specific memory or feeling you want to evoke (the more specific the more likely you will be to get a reply!). i'll find you a perfume sample to evoke it. ok go. again just "woodsy" or "fresh" or "happy" isn't going to help me as much as specific places, photographs, scenes from movies or novels you wish you were in, time periods, vibes
Sep 20, 2022 5 tweets 1 min read
something a mentor of mine once told me that i will pass along: a great way to stay curious/stretch yourself into something new is to pick a new-to-you obsession every season -- can be a word, a genre, an actor, a color, a place -- and curate your own little festival around it and suddenly you start to refract the world around that thing -- so if you pick, say, opera, or F1 racing, or emily dickinson, or diana ross, or ANYTHING + start reading books about it + listening to podcasts/albums + doing double-feature movie nites new patterns will emerge
Sep 20, 2022 8 tweets 4 min read
if i ran/curated another weekly fall movie club at last (with a discord to discuss), what vibe would you be into we've done screwballs and whodunnits so far and it has been great -- so...thinking of doing this again
Sep 17, 2022 5 tweets 1 min read
Had never seen Magnolia so watched it last night and a) it rules b) julianne moore’s best performance maybe???? c) pta was 29 when he made it….what have I done with my life also melora walters should have an oscar and so should tom also when donnie said “I have a lot of love to give I just don’t know where to put it” I cried
May 10, 2022 4 tweets 1 min read
considering doing another movie club via discord this summer. we did screwball fall and then whodunnit winter should we do OK erotic thriller winning but maybe that's a fall thing...what about SUMMER ON THE HIGH SEAS
May 10, 2022 5 tweets 2 min read
i spent a day with parker posey and we talked of many things newyorker.com/culture/the-ne… also, our stroll through the city was as laced with chaotic energy as you would hope
May 9, 2022 4 tweets 2 min read
the thing about the sisterhood of the egg cooker is it turns us all into little mavis gallants making our little meager but fancy breakfasts that involve ritualistic clackers and cups the way my DMS are FULL of egg cooker enthusiasts...i knew we were many but we are legion
May 9, 2022 5 tweets 1 min read
literally writing about the egg cooker now. i had to. i feel like every woman i know has bought one. writing a little ode to Hotel Breakfast™️
May 9, 2022 4 tweets 1 min read
listening to the palace papers and realizing i absolutely LOVE the zazzy way tina does sentences and half of nonfiction used to be written like this but she's one of the only people left doing it the spicy adjectives! the carbonated prose like a glass of cava! the idea that every pull quote could be a VF headline
Apr 11, 2022 6 tweets 1 min read
this is the time of year when i really crave "new-age california cuisine" i know spring has sprung when i want a sandwich on 7-grain with sprouts and avocado and a mystery goddess dressing
Apr 11, 2022 4 tweets 2 min read
watched that documentary "the velvet queen" about two dudes who live in -20 degree weather in the tibetan mountains for months just to take 5 minutes of footage of a snow leopard...it's beautiful the shots they get from not moving for 9 hours a day and pretending to be snow-covered rocks...
Apr 9, 2022 8 tweets 2 min read
working an adoption event for hearts and bones today which means I get to hang out with this dog named kim gordon today Image This dog is fantastic by the way… She’s a border collie and all she has done for the last hour is snuggle in my lap and hasn’t barked at a single other dog here. If you’re looking for dogs… DM me I can tell you about the org I volunteer for!
Apr 9, 2022 4 tweets 1 min read
levi's ribcage jeans...that girl still the goat imho
Feb 20, 2022 8 tweets 1 min read
what show should I watch that’s one you feel evangelical about because nobody else has seen it give me your deepest cuts
Feb 19, 2022 4 tweets 1 min read
It’s such a strange feeling to have an intense craving for a Starbucks birthday cake pop to the point where you must have one or you cannot go about your day Never thought I would be this girl
Jan 14, 2022 14 tweets 5 min read
can’t tell if I’m blessed or cursed to have manifested this kooky Santa Fe aunt catalog to show up at my door for the woman who simply has to get to a craft fair
Jan 12, 2022 4 tweets 2 min read
watched Gloria last night and I think that Cassavetes guy was onto something*

*marrying gena rowlands I just think that she ImageImageImageImage
Jan 10, 2022 4 tweets 1 min read
had never seen it…what a flick high recommend if you want the sun-baked menacing calm of ripley with more malevolent charlotte rampling
Jan 9, 2022 6 tweets 1 min read
finished this season of search party in a giant gulp and it’s a RIDE; it ended perfectly a++++++++ congrats to sarah-violet bliss and charles rogers for making one of the best shows of all time
Jan 9, 2022 4 tweets 1 min read
why was this a push notification nytimes.com/2022/01/07/rea… Lol