Posts tagged My Writing Elsewhere
My first go-round as a regular book reviewer for The Daily Beast is up (I wrote the last two in the series this week). Look for me again next month!
Above is an accurate visual dipiction of a day in my life.
The Wall Street Journal sent me to Trinidad for a travel story — I loved that place, most especially for its complete lack of interest in white tourists. And the hike along the northern coast, plus dinner at Coco’s Hut after, was a highlight of my entire travel career.
Herman Koch’s novel The Dinner has become a bona fide literary sensation in Europe and elsewhere around the world. This week, it comes to the United States. I looked into it’s prospects for success for The Daily Beast, along with a broader look at the market for foreign translations in America.
P.S. I really enjoyed the book. Recommended read!
Can Herman Koch’s ‘The Dinner’ Take America by Storm? (The Daily Beast)
I’m a little late posting this, but I wrote this piece for the Fiscal Times last week about Warby Parker’s influence on the eyewear industry. They have copycats, they have brick and mortar stores emulating their model, and they may even have the industry behemoth quaking just a little bit.
Above is me, in my Warby Parker glasses, which are fragmenting my face.
My favorite part about researching this piece for Conde Nast Traveler on fashion designers who’ve been graced with their own museums was the part where I went down a rabbit hole of dresses by Charles Frederick Worth, who doesn’t even have his own museum, but who was the only designer who mattered in the late 19th century.
My review of it-hotel Ruschmeyer’s is up at The New York Times. Not included in the review: We got to meet the world’s best body-surfer, who was staying two rooms down!
Above is a photo of the hotel’s delicious breakfast spread.
Hotel Review: Ruschmeyer’s in Montauk, N.Y. (New York Times)
The Recession didn’t hit all cities equally, and neither did the recovery. In my latest piece for the Fiscal Times, I look at who got hit worst, who recovered best, and everything in between.
Pictured above is a ghost town in California, which has nothing to do with our current economic woes, I’m sure.
Where the Jobs Are: The Cities that Led the Recovery (The Fiscal Times)
Like Pearl Jam 18 years ago (!), Louis C.K. is taking on Ticketmaster, selling tickets for his major upcoming tour directly via his website and cutting out the ticketing behemoth completely. In my piece for The Fiscal Times today, I ask if now that we’ve figured out how to harness the Internet age, he could succeed where Eddie Vedder failed.
Louis CK’s Latest Scheme: Should Ticketmaster Worry? (The Fiscal Times)
I just published my first piece for Conde Nast Traveler, about the new Spritmuseum in Stockholm housing Absolut Vodka’s substantial art collection. Art meets commerce!
Absolut Vodka Ads Get Permanent Home in Sweden’s New Spritmuseum (Conde Nast Traveler)
My review of the newly reopened Shelborne Hotel in South Beach is up at The New York Times. My mom came along this time — and for the first time ever in her company, I took care of the hotel for the night. Score one for adulthood.
