Round & Round

The past few days have been too busy for words! Recent doings and observations:

• Spent last weekend on Maryland's Eastern Shore with one of my oldest friends, who was celebrating a birthday. I snapped the photo above when we were driving through a cornfield to get to a party; always a good sign. My favorite towns, in order: Oxford, Tilghman Island, St. Michael's, Easton. Great coffee, thrifting, scenery.
• Had lunch on Friday with the brilliant and stylish Shin-Pei Tsay just before I left the city for more enchanting environs.
• On Monday, my lovely lunch date in DC was the also brilliant and stylish Tayari Jones, who is probably coming to a place near you in the next few months to read from The Untelling. After lunch, we went over to Kramerbooks and I stocked up on future travel reading with Liars and Saints, The Electric Michelangelo, and The Master and Margarita.
• Last Thursday evening, I went to Eyebeam in Chelsea to check out one of its events. The space is sublime, the people there are very intellectual and captivating, the bookstore expertly curated, and executive director Amanda McDonald Crowley is charming, chic and truly visionary. Definitely stop by when you're in the neighborhood.
• On Monday in DC (I was already there) and Tuesday in New York (I happen to live down the street from the bookstore) I attended readings by Katharine Weber from her new novel, Triangle, which I've been thrilled to work on this summer. The crowds keep growing and for good reason!
• On Tuesday I met up with the brilliant and stylish Min Jin Lee for pie at Bubby's. Mine was chocolate and peanut butter. Yum!
  
• Last night the brilliant and stylish Beth Stellato of Just My Cup of Tea and I met up at Opening Ceremony to peruse the Topshop offerings (the annoying MTV crew filming a segment meant in the shop I'll have to go back another day to really check out the goods) and then went to La Esquina for a delicious dinner and a creative convo about the next style bloggers' party. Details tk.
• As for this evening, I'm looking forward to dinner with artistic genius Portia Wells.
• The Smithsonian's American Art Museum, newly open again after a long renovation and now paired with the National Portrait Gallery as "The Reynolds Center," can best be described as a sweetly reverent flea market. Maybe more on that later.
• On heavy rotation: The Brand New Heavies, Sondre Lerche, Joanna Newsom.

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I LOVE Joanna Newsom. But she's OURS, I tell ya! You hear me? Joanna Newsom is WEST COAST! (And, in fact, piece of trivia: she's related to Mayor Gavin.)