Elizabeth Wood

I wonder how I would’ve felt about this if I hadn’t seen a truly excellent movie about the despair that can come with having to be a child’s everything while your husband gets to do anything else. If I Had Legs I’d Kick You was exquisite;

This film! I recommend it to everyone. I saw this when it first came out in theaters and it just stuck with me. It was unavailable to stream for a long time but now you can watch it on mubi

My friends Ruby McCollister, Leah Hennessey and Arabella Aldrich opened the coolest store evaaa and now it’s my favorite place in the city to hang out (if you want to hunt me down and kill me, you’ll definitely find me there!!!) They have crazy antique clown pants, jangly keychains made out of giant acorns, and Marissa Zappas perfumes. Marissa is a... See more

I am addicted to buying Diesel sneakers on eBay. The white pair is particularly disgusting because I wear them constantly. They’re so comfy and they don’t fall apart when u buy them secondhand. -Justine

Town Without Time” is a beautiful new collection of Talese’s city writing and it compiles over sixty years of his dispatches, profiles and reported essays about New York. The nearly 500 page tome collects many of his landmark pieces, like his profile of Frank Sinatra and his opus about the Bonanno crime family, but it’s also filled with more... See more

I have an almost religious relationship with this bar. Founded in 1892 and located just off Union Square, Old Town is a historic and venerated institution, yet to my surprise, it still manages to float a little under the radar. It boasts a majestic old world grandeur: there’s a marble and mahogany bar, stained glass windows, metal cash registers,... See more

The Up Series by Michael Apted is one of the most profound uses of the moving image ever. In 1963 he was asked by ITV to do a portrait of a variety of children from different social backgrounds in the UK, when they were at the age of 7 - leading to the film Seven Up! Seven years later, he met them again at 14, then at 21, and so it went. Every... See more

Chris Ware is one of the contemporary artists that have inspired me the most. His ways of using graphic novels and graphic concepts in his art is a complete redefinition of the form. I’

We are all given struggle and pain in this life, and the way we choose to deal with it and the way we grow from it and the make the world a better place is legacy. Try to alchemize your pain into something that can make the world a better place, because your own perspective is what can drive you to do that.