In high school, my awesomely strange group of friends and I used to hang out in bedrooms and basements and read Daniel Pinkwater stories out loud to each other.  Pinkwater’s collection Young Adults includes the novella “Young Adult Novel,” which is about outcast weirdos like we were. I wish I could still quote from it [...]

This is one of the three books I have on hand to give away to unsuspecting readers who enter my house. I learned about it in 2005 Lost & Found essay in Tin House by Diana Fox. I gobbled up that essay and went to the bookstore right away and tracked the book down. It’s [...]

The idea that even one person will love a hardback book enough to decorate it with a stylish, protective book cover might just help me sleep tonight. Design-oriented boutique Opening Ceremony collaborated on 5 book covers for the New York Art Book Fair with artists Marcel Dzama, Mitch Epstein, Spike Jonze, Miranda July, and Geoff [...]

Because sometimes you want to say something fleeting but frameable. Available at The Curiosity Shoppe.

I bought this Dietrich Lubs pen embedded in the Düller notebook for the person in my life who carries a small notebook in his pocket at all times with a little pen slipped into the book’s elastic band. This simplifies his ritual, but respects each element of it.