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Have You Filmed Her

Have You Found Her from Milk Products on Vimeo.

Needless to say, I heard SO MUCH from so many people about the film that Janice was working on with Milk Products for her riveting book, Have You Found Her, that we publicized together when it came out this spring. Check it out (as Janice plays every part!) and I dare you to look away. It's as jaw-dropping as the book. Have You Found Her is perfect vacation reading (paperback light and can't-lose-yellow-on-the-beach bright) and you'll see what led The Miami Herald to note,

"Have You Found Her reminds us why we as a culture are drawn to memoir -- these beautiful, imperfect characters will remain fixtures in our heads. The story continues to live beyond its pages, because the reader is left with the sensation that these women still are walking around, thinking about each other, and they will for the rest of their lives." No doubt.

The Pretty Island

In the finest tradition here at Lux Lotus, it's time for a break from blogging. I'll be around and busy, and perhaps making time for an adventure or two. Expect the occasional 'Postcard,' but updates will likely be weekly or rarer (which is to say: highly collectible) until after Labor Day. In search of a riveting read? May I suggest:

Cost by Roxana Robinson
The Drop Edge of Yonder by Rudolph Wurlitzer
Free Food for Millionaires by Min Jin Lee
Have You Found Her by Janice Erlbaum

Happy summer, doves-- be good to yourselves! I shall do the same, and tell you all about it, as always (just not daily)... XOXO.

IMAGE 1: DARJEELING LTD.
IMAGE 2: SOURCE

The New News

Things related to my PR projects and such are smashingly good this week:

Roxana Robinson's COST is out just two weeks and already in its second printing (if you find a first edition, hold onto it!). The Wall Street Journal calls COST "summer reading of uncommon stature" and The New York Times Book Review praises it as "unusual for being as plot-driven as it is character-driven" and for "final words, which made me catch my breath..." Roxana also contributed a 'Book Notes' playlist to Largehearted Boy.

BLESS at Ludlow 38 is highlighted in The New York Post's "Haute List" today, as well as on fashion insiders' source, JC Report, and Sunday Styles' PULSE section in The New York Times.

July's edition of "Upstairs at the Square" will feature Aimee Mann and Joseph O'Neill on the 31st.

Plus, you can still sign up for "Innovative Publicity Basics," an online workshop that costs twenty dollars and is open to all, which I'll be conducting via email for two weeks starting July 1. I also discussed effective promotion for cultural projects with Kassia Krozser of Booksquare earlier this week for an upcoming podcast, so I'll let you know when that's online. And I'll be speaking in person at the Backspace Writers Conference in August here in New York.

Windowlicker

Perhaps I find this little table charming because, as with vans and houseboat living, I am not old enough to have reviled "shades of macrame" the first time around. Adorable in "olivine," it reminds me of the tumble-down chic of my friends' apartments in New Orleans when we were students, all cheap furniture and never-long-enough drapes in clumsily partitioned old mansions, with no shortage of overflowing ashtrays and perfect bohemian bonhomie.

[Crochet table, $39.95 at CB2]

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

18 Karat Chains

I'm heartily amused by the comments on a post by Anne Christensen at The Moment "rationalizing" a $5,000 Chanel jacket, and have to admit they're a hundred times more entertaining than the original, e.g. "I know I will still be able to wear this jacket 10 years from now" vs "better wear kevlar under that frock.  i assume that folks wearing $5000 sweaters will be the first to go after the revolution" and my personal favorite, "Pipp, like most individuals, conveniently ignores social context..."

From the LL Archives: Windowlicker, A Rose is a Rose, Crimson Horizon.

My Life in Pictures: Mid-Day Reverie

As Tennyson says in "The Lotos-Eaters," In the afternoon they came unto a land/ In which it seemed always afternoon... Cocktail hour was in sight, but midtown seemed miles away today as tea at the Royalton hit the spot.

Windowlicker

A yé-yé classic!

[French Sailor's Shirt in Cream/Navy, $29.50 at L.L. Bean]

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

Radiolux

Windowlicker

Last night after I attended an event for work, I found myself in my sister's neighborhood and so I stopped by to catch up over La Dolce Vita. I mentioned that last week I was in the chic department store that she works for and that, with all of the designer handbags on sale displayed in bins, it looked like Canal Street with incongruous price tags. She noted that you can't plan for an economic downturn, and that retailers, now deluged with excess inventory, expected accessories to fuel profits in a way that has since slowed markedly. She said that fine jewelry now does best, because "people want real value." Although I like luxury, I can also say that I've never found much solace in things. Experiences, on the other hand, and the means to attain them, flicker with promise eternally.

[Giftcard for 5 New York-London roundtrips on Eos, $24,000 at Vivre]

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

Lux Lotus 'Round Midnight Poetry Hour

DUALITY
BY TINA CHANG

"Perhaps I hold people to impossible ideals,
I tell them, something is wrong with your
personality, (you're a drinker, you're
too dependent, or I think you have
a mother/son fixation). This is usually
followed by passionate lovemaking,
one good long and very well meaning
embrace, and then I'm out the door. 

In daylight, I'll tip my sunglasses forward,
buy a cup of tea and think of the good
I've done for the world, how satisfying
it feels to give a man something to contemplate..."

Read the rest.

IMAGE: BRITISH VOGUE.