I interviewed this woman after she'd been on one of the Poles while in her eighties. When I asked, "So are you ready for your next adventure?," she said, "Are you out of your fucking mind?"
A leader who is ashamed about the size of his hands proceeds, through inaction and passive-aggression, to force an entire nation to obsess over their own hands. If you put it in a novel or screenplay, it would be rejected as too on-the-nose.
The state that looks like it'd be the easiest one to snap off from the Lower 48 is, intriguingly, the state that you'd most like to snap off from the Lower 48
Small World Department: the East Village apartment that Chloe Sevigny describes in this week’s Talk of the Town, with a toilet down the hall that junkies would break into, WAS MY APARTMENT IN THE LATE 80’s. I, a hayseed, thought the junkies’ leftover syringe caps were pen caps.
Concerned about your Thanksgiving gathering? Here's my 2014 story in which I asked 8 hostage negotiators for their tips re dealing with relatives at Turkeytime.
On our first trip out of NYC since the pandemic started my boyfriend and I got to sit in zero-gravity chairs in the middle of the woods and we are birds now
One upside to staying indoors for days at a time is that when you finally DO take the plunge, you see for the first time a tree you’ve lived across the street from for 31 years
My favorite part of writing the bubble-wearing article for
@NewYorker
was, alas, cut from the published piece: I got together with my dance buddy Lucy Mahler, who is 71 and quarantining alone, for some socially-distanced dancing. Photos by Lawrence Levi (
@lawlevnyc
).
I was a guest twice on Conan Obrien's show, where I got to meet the awesome Andy Richter. Of all the people I've ever been interviewed by, or interviewed, Conan was probably one of the most intellectually nimble. And definitely wore the most make-up.