Windowlicker

Today's Windowlicker guest editor is Tayari Jones. Tayari will always have a special place in my heart because she was one of the first fiction writers I worked with as an independent publicist (she would technically have been my first fiction client except when I was thinking about this earlier I realized that the first two literary books I publicized (her novel, The Untelling, and Quinn Dalton's story collection, Bulletproof Girl) came out on the same day. And I was in Amsterdam that day. My life per usual!).

Ms. Jones says:

As we enter the sweat-suited post-911 holiday airport-madness I am nostalgic for the time when folks traveled by train, in civilized splendor.

["Lovely vintage 1950's signed Delill, Made in Italy traincase box purse...Fully lined with tan colored felt depicting equestrian themed horseshoe design," $125 from Retro Designer Deals]

Although I still think of Dooney and Burke as the Talbot's of handbags, I have been crushed out over this new line.  Giraffe, apparently, is the new leopard.

[Giraffe Large Sac, $395 at Dooney & Burke]

Windowlicker - from the French for window shopping: faire du lèche-vitrine - appears on Tuesday and Thursdays at 10am EST-ish.