{"id":71,"date":"2014-10-14T22:48:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-14T22:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elitemporaryblog.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/14\/looking-forward"},"modified":"2015-12-10T19:11:24","modified_gmt":"2015-12-11T00:11:24","slug":"looking-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangette.net\/2014\/10\/looking-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking forward"},"content":{"rendered":"
I picked up a roll of film that I shot at Sam and Megan\u2019s wedding last month, and maybe my friend at the lab did some wizardry with the negative scanner, but the whole roll has this glowy, ethereal light shining through it. It\u2019s a decidedly end-of-summer light. I like the way it makes me feel.<\/p>\n
The past few mornings, our neighborhood has been white with fog, this dense fog that blows up the street in visible gusts, and it feels so familiar and so welcome, but it is a decidedly not-summer thing.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m writing this from an airplane to Chicago. Brandon is with me (!), and having had a lot of long days lately (hosting a dinner at Delancey in honor of Francis Mallmann<\/a> (!), hosting a dinner at Delancey in honor of our friend<\/a>\u00a0Renee Erickson<\/a> (!), being so fired up afterward that we planned\u00a0another special dinner<\/a>\u00a0for mid-November, completing eight months of testing to finally finally finally<\/i> put a wood-fired burger (!), Brandon\u2019s new pet, on the Sunday night menu at\u00a0Essex<\/a>), we are giddy to get out of town. We bought Ranch-flavored Corn Nuts for the plane ride, and we intend to land with no teeth left. We\u2019re going to sleep a little, and then probably eat a lot, and then we\u2019ll drive to Madison on Thursday for my talk at the Wisconsin Book Festival<\/a>. Madison, I heard a rumor that you\u2019re great. I\u2019m looking forward to meeting you.<\/p>\n In the meantime, there are many things to read.<\/p>\n I inhaled Lena Dunham\u2019s brand new book, Not That Kind of Girl<\/a><\/i>,\u00a0in just over a week, which might be the fastest I\u2019ve read anything that I wasn\u2019t being tested on. There\u2019s a lot of talk about her book, good and bad and indifferent, and I think that\u2019s great. I loved it, and I loved that she was willing to do it \u2013 to write about bad decisions, condoms, body stuff, the messy stuff you do when you\u2019re twenty, the stuff we\u2019re not supposed to talk about.<\/p>\n The theme of last Sunday\u2019s New York Times Magazine<\/i><\/a> was feeding kids, and the entire country is now tearing its hair out. But I loved Mark Bittman\u2019s piece<\/a> about parenting as a food writer \u2013 not because I think his example is in any way the norm, food writer parents or no, but because he gave smart, sensible advice about eating.<\/p>\n On a related note, this article<\/a> is so funny and so good. Thank you, Luisa<\/a>.<\/p>\n And:\u00a0career tips from smart women<\/a>! SHINE THE WAY, LADIES.<\/p>\n See you very shortly.<\/p>\n P.S. Renee will be at Maiden Lane\u00a0in New York City\u00a0next Monday, and I hope you\u2019ll go eat Messy Shrimp with her in my stead. (Tickets over\u00a0this way<\/a>.) She\u2019s so good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I picked up a roll of film that I shot at Sam and Megan\u2019s wedding last month, and maybe my friend at the lab did some wizardry with the negative scanner, but the whole roll has this glowy, ethereal light shining through it. It\u2019s a decidedly end-of-summer light. I like the way it makes me feel. The past few mornings, our neighborhood has been white with fog, this dense fog that blows up the street in visible gusts, and it feels so familiar and so welcome, but it is a decidedly not-summer thing. I\u2019m writing this from an airplane to Chicago. Brandon is with me (!), and having had a lot of long days lately (hosting a dinner at Delancey…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[243,245,242,225,241,244,125,240],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n<\/a><\/div>\n
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