I can count on one hand the number of people I know who have at least heard of Perfume: The Story of a Murderer. I don’t know if it’s one of those books that was really big when it came out and then sort of faded away, or if it was always had something of a small but dedicated following (Nirvana’s“Scentless Apprentice” was inspired by the book;...
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The back of my copy of Kitchen (which is actually my mother’s copy, that I stuffed in my bag coming back to school) proclaims that “Bananamania Is Here!” Apparently I missed Bananamania, as I’d only heard about the Japanese writer this year reading reviews of her recent novel The Lake. I wanted to read The Lake and kept finding...
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I was all set to write an entirely different article on typeface, but when I realized it was to be published on Thanksgiving, I had to reconsider. Turkey Day is undoubtedly my favorite holiday despite being a vegetarian, and should I have chosen to ignore it by blogging about Helvetica, I wouldn’t have been representing myself fairly. So what does one do...
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Thanksgiving is coming up. It’s a much anticipated day in America, a day of sharing a meal in communion with family and perhaps some friends. After the floating turkey balloons, the Sesame Street and Charlie Brown floats of the Thanksgiving Day Parade, televisions switch over to the green of the gridiron for some Thanksgiving Day football. Glorious...
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Do you have a butcher? I don’t. I don’t have a butcher. I’m rather miffed at myself about this. I bet some of you do. I just bet it. I bet some of you still have milk delivered to your house. My friend Karoline told me about how when she was growing up she had milk delivered to her house—glass bottles and all. I was outraged and...
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