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The Porter’s Lodge
In the summer of 2003, I attended a viewing party celebrating the premiere of The O.C. at my friend Diesel’s house. Specifically, in a guesthouse planted in an overgrown corner of his grandparents’...
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Unhousing
Foreclosed homes as haunted houses. Photo: Casey Serin My wife and I began searching for a house in 2008, just as the market was crashing, just as those first waves of foreclosed homes and short sales...
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House-sitting and Other Work
Precarity and creativity in other people’s homes. Charles Demuth, Modern Conveniences, 1921. When I moved back to Portland, Oregon, in 2010, after four years away in New York and Arizona, no one would...
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Overheard in New York
Georgios Jakobides, The First Steps, 1889 Now that it is going to be sold, my grandparents’ house, and the summers we spent there, seem cloaked in romance. I remember the trips to the thrift store, the...
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Dead Authors’ Homes
Salinger’s old house. Photo: Jim Mauchly / Mountain Graphics Photography The literary real-estate market is booming. In May, Ray Bradbury’s house was for sale (Los Angeles, California; 2,500 square...
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Unhousing
We’re out until January 5, but we’re re-posting some of our favorite pieces from 2014 while we’re away. We hope you enjoy—and have a happy New Year! * Foreclosed homes as haunted houses. Photo: Casey...
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Where We Live
Atlanta, Georgia, 1996. Photo via Laurence Miller Gallery David Graham’s “Where We Live: Photographs of the American Home” is at Laurence Miller Gallery through June 26. Graham’s photographs span more...
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Split Screens: An Interview with Richard McGuire
Photo © Maelle DoliveuxLast November, on his birthday, I accompanied Richard McGuire to the emergency room. He was experiencing some excruciating back pain. Richard is an unusually polite and...
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The Coltrane Home in Dix Hills
The deceptively ordinary house where Coltrane composed A Love Supreme. Coltrane’s unassuming house in Dix Hills. In an empty corner of a modest home in suburban New York, hiding beneath a construction...
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How I Got Millayed
A day in Edna St. Vincent Millay’s gardens at Steepletop.Millay at Mitchell Kennerly’s house in Mamaroneck, New York, 1914.In high school, I had a simple assignment to write a report on a poet. I...
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Holiday Travel
The night crowd.I grew up in a Manhattan apartment whose view encompassed sky, clouds, and other apartments. For a while I kept a pair of binoculars on the windowsill. I used them before going to bed,...
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The Spoil of Destruction
The house Thomas Mann described as “so completely my own” could be torn down.Mann, in 1941, at his Pacific Palisades home, with his wife, Katia, and two of their grandchildren.Thomas Mann’s house in...
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Ideas and a New Hat
Francesca Woodman’s playful darkness. Francesca Woodman, Space 2, 1976. Francesca Woodman died on this day in 1981. Digital subscribers can see a portfolio of her early work in our Spring 2014 issue....
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The Library at Grey Gardens
Photo: Lesley M. M. Blume A few years ago, when I heard through the grapevine that Grey Gardens was up for rent, I thought it had to be a bizarre joke: What kind of a sick twist would pay to spend...
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Once I Had This Dream
“Once I Had This Dream,” an exhibition of paintings by Gretchen Scherer, is at Art 3 Gallery through June 24. Scherer, who lives and works in Brooklyn, paints rambling manses and crumbling chateaux as...
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The Library at Grey Gardens
We’re away until January 3, but we’re reposting some of our favorite pieces from 2017. Enjoy your holiday! Photo: Lesley M. M. Blume A few years ago, when I heard through the grapevine that Grey...
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Where We Live
Atlanta, Georgia, 1996. Photo via Laurence Miller Gallery David Graham’s “Where We Live: Photographs of the American Home” is at Laurence Miller Gallery through June 26. Graham’s photographs span more...
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Split Screens: An Interview with Richard McGuire
Photo © Maelle Doliveux Last November, on his birthday, I accompanied Richard McGuire to the emergency room. He was experiencing some excruciating back pain. Richard is an unusually polite and...
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The Coltrane Home in Dix Hills
The deceptively ordinary house where Coltrane composed A Love Supreme. Coltrane’s unassuming house in Dix Hills. In an empty corner of a modest home in suburban New York, hiding beneath a construction...
View ArticleClik here to view.
How I Got Millayed
A day in Edna St. Vincent Millay’s gardens at Steepletop. Millay at Mitchell Kennerly’s house in Mamaroneck, New York, 1914. In high school, I had a simple assignment to write a report on a poet. I...
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