WELCOME TO ROOM 001
REFOLDING OF PLEATS, ATTENTIVE AS TULIPS
“Do you think that you have greyhound dogs because they remind you of Kendall?”
Jlaw asks Kylie
“The Post first wrote about the man - known as Howard but nicknamed “Cheese” by local cops because of his stench - in April, when he was spotted wandering the area and muttering to himself as he tried to get into area businesses.”
Paparazzi Piece About the Man Who Once Briefly Lived in The Vestibule of my Building
“I went to Times Square to see RoboCop. There was a prostitute sitting behind me giving a blow job, a guy to my right smoking crack. I think what was most shocking was that every time RoboCop shot someone, everyone in the theatre started cheering, joining in with the movie, which you’d never get in England”
“Our faces cupped and attentive as tulips”
From The Girls by Emma Cline
“But it doesn’t work, these erasures, this constant refolding of the pleats”
Litany in which Certain Things Are Crossed Out
“Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin picked a 2007 image, taken for French Vogue, of Ms. Moss astride a chopper.”
On Kate Moss and Cowboys
“We wound up in an empty bar by the water with a nautical theme, and I thought, We’re like sailors, blown in here to escape our rootlessness.”
The Baby Dinner
“How, for example, did Rhode Island’s supremely unhealthy and awesomely good fried calamari — dressed with garlic butter and pickled hot peppers — end up in your restaurant as a plate of pale, unsalted squid rings next to a dish of sweet mayonnaise with a distant rumor of spice?”
Guy Fieri’s One Star NYT Review
“And honestly, if I did ever come close to reaching my ultimate potential, this had to be it: crushing IHOP omelettes with Chet motherfucking Hanks.”
On Being Mentored by Chet Hanks
4. What's your favorite thing you've committed to memory?
Please, PLEASE, do not tell anyone that it's DaBaby's feature on Jail pt 2 from the Donda album. Not because DaBaby was cancelled at the time or because Kanye, excuse me Ye, is cancelled now. I'm just not sure the world is ready for that color on me.
Dispatch from Ireland
Though I learned how babies were made when I was 6, I’d yet to find out how to get into a
baby-making situation with a decent man on the island of Manhattan.
The Baby Dinner
“It’s like Agatha Christie,” said James. “Not a whodunit, but a who’s-gonna-do-it.”
The Baby Dinner
“Why are you wearing my heart on your sleeve?”
Scaaaaarlet
