Themes So Far: Birds, Gates
Emily Gordon: Tomorrow morning, more about Chang-Rae Lee, Lorrie “American Idol” Moore, Zadie Smith, Jonathan Franzen, and Star Question Girl of the Night. These themes have emerged: birds (my glass bird earrings from Catbird, Birds of America, “My Bird Problem,” a lot of birds and undoubtedly some blokes sighing over Jonathan Franzen’s fuckable shame spiral), and Gates, as in Christo and Jeanne-Claude. As my astute friend Tiffany pointed out at Zadie and Jonathan Go to White Castle, the New Yorker Festival bags, resplendently orange for fall, look just like old Central Park sculptures retooled into handy squares. And then Franzen mentioned those very Gates in his essay! Plus birds! It was a night full of serendipity, especially since it turns out that Lorrie Moore lives on my sister’s street. And my sister’s house is covered in orange trim. Gates orange. Now where’s Jonathan “Saffron” Foer to complete the picture?
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Chang-Rae Lee is going to have to knock my socks off…
Emily Gordon: …to sway my gaze from Lorrie Moore, of whom I have long been an ardent fan. He’s great, don’t get me wrong. But Lorrie Moore: When, like, life makes you wonder who the heck will run the frog hospital, the birds of America sing anagrams. “I know some things,” they say. “Self-help: Read Lorrie Moore.”
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Our Endless and Proper Work is my new book with Belt Publishing about starting (and sticking to) a productive writing practice. 
