Lux Lotus

On Wanderlust

I wrote about recent travels in Europe for the new issue of Faerie Magazine (print only):

On Round Tables

I'm delighted to start a lunchtime book group at India House (#1 is The Cat's Table, July 11). The Summer Open House is this Wednesday evening. Want to come? Write me for details.

On Chocolates for Breakfast

“'You know,' he smiled, "If I’m not awfully careful I shall fall in love with you.' 'Oh, no,' she said solemnly. 'You mustn’t do that.'” Come join us in SoHo on July 11, when I'll read a page from a sly, smart and sexy 1956 coming-of-age classic. 7pm at Housing Works, free.

On Predictions

Tonight is the seventh anniversary of "Upstairs at the Square," the literary and music series I helped to found with host and executive producer Katherine Lanpher, and we're delighted to be joined by Philipp Meyer and Tift Merritt this evening. In the neighborhood? Come join us at the B&N on Union Square, for a 7pm show that's free and open to all. By the by, that novelist I mentioned, who will likely win the Pulitzer? The very one.

Salter on Lampedusa

"The Leopard was published posthumously. His wife didn't care about literature, she liked smoking and clothes. He was an aristocrat. They lived in Palermo. That's everything in the world right there."

––James Salter, in conversation last night at the Center for Fiction, with executive director Noreen Tomassi (in response to a question about which books he might have like to have written himself, or would regard as great novels of the world in history)

On Portraits (New Painting of Me)

Yes, Lauren Will Have Those Oysters. 9"x12", oil on canvas, by Lisa Ferber, 2013. For sale by artist.

On Letters

I wrote about love, literature and letters for Dempsey & Carroll.

On Culture

Flavorwire named me one of "50 Up-and-Coming New York Culture Makers to Watch in 2013" today. An interview is here.

On Adaptation

I have contributed a guest post to Romancing the Tome today, about James Salter's elusive directorial debut. 

On Work in Progress

I've been asked to write two guest posts on correspondence and entertaining for Eighteen-Seventy-Eight, the house publication of Dempsey & Carroll, and a special holiday column, as a follow-up to my concluded summer series, for the Weeklings. Soon.