• All I Want For Christmas

    27Nov
    Categories: Me, photography is amazing

    Is a bunch of expensive presents. For those of you who are dying to buy me something, here are a few helpful hints:

    Because Baybish needs to get with it:

    I think this would be a great book for all parents of young babies, whether it’s their first or their fifteenth child. No more free passes, babies! Fix Mommy a cocktail! Also available: Baby, Make Me Breakfast; Baby, Do My Banking; and Baby, Fix My Car. Why not get me the whole series?

    While you’re over at McSweeney’s, feel free to get me an international subscription. They’re expensive, but trust me, I’m worth it. I am deeply saddened because I have had to let all my lit-mag subscriptions go since we moved as they’re all too damn expensive to keep up over here. Let me say also, if you have never read any of these and you refuse to buy them for me, then the least you could do is click on over and subscribe to them yourself. Or pick one up at the bookstore and think of me fondly while you read it.


    One Story. Just what it says. Each magazine is a pleasingly thin little staple-bound paperback, in a muted color, containing one story. There are 18 in a year’s subscription, so you’re sort of constantly surprised to be getting yet another one in the mail. They are so good, that you will probably fall into the habit of reading it at once. Out of 18 stories they published in 2006, 10 of them were anthologized in collections like Best American, and the O. Henry Prize Stories.


    Zoetrope: All-Story. This one I enjoy because there is a guest designer for every issue. Each issue features a different artist (photographers, filmmakers, architects, musicians) that handle the magazine’s design and layout for that issue. I am very interested in the interplay of text and imagery, so I always find something interesting, and the stories are good, too. It’s Francis Ford Coppola’s project so the stories are almost always by recognizably famous literary writers.


    Tin House. This one I tend to read cover-to-cover. It’s contemporary fiction that is working to retain its edge, but not trying to be as edgy as say, McSweeney’s. Some of my favorite writers publish there, but there are also new voices in every issue as well. Someday, I would really like to publish a story in this magazine.

    And, (sniff), The New Yorker. That one’s easily solved, though, because I could happily read old New Yorkers for the rest of my life, probably, if someone wants to shell out $100 and get me this:


    Actually, if you buy it in ££s, it’s only fifty quid! That’ a bah-gain, readers! The short fiction alone is worth that, so buy it for me.

    For those of you with money to spend, there’s this little number:

    Ahem. The Nikon 70-200/2.8 VR. I won’t list the price here. Let’s just say you might want to run through your jewelry and electronics and think about what might fetch a fair price on eBay before ordering this for me.

    And I need one of these:

    And I really, really want one of these:

    And a green coat, which I could not find a suitable picture of, anywhere. I’m hoping Ann, if she makes it to the end of this incredibly self-indulgent post, will help me out by finding me one. Truly green, please — not Olive. Something tailored and fitted, with smart buttons, maybe, and in a shade that will make it easy for my chickens to spot me in the crowd. And also boots, if you can find them. Brown or black, I don’t care. I would assign the boots to Aaryn, but she’s liable to find me some crazy high-heeled $500 numbers that I cannot live without, which would either cause my husband to leave me or have me tripping into the gap I’m supposed to be minding and falling under a train.

    Which just wouldn’t be in the holiday spirit, I’m afraid.

    What would be in the holiday spirit, however, would be for the rest of you NaBloJoMoFo’ers to tell everyone what you want (to get me) for Christmas.

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