Life & Arts served cozy on a tray by Lizzie Simon (author of DETOUR, former WSJ Theater Columnist, screenwriter and travel writer.)
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Dog Days by Emily LaBarge: “On the night of Dec. 22, 2009, six masked men broke into the holiday rental on a Caribbean island where Emily LaBarge, then 25, was staying with her mother, father and sister. Soon LaB...
Music Theories
This is a little story I reworked a bit this week. I first wrote and published it in the spring of 2023, when we were all still clawing our way out from the deep pandemic. Oof, remember that? Enjoy!
On Wednesday evenings, I pick up my 8 ye...
From I to We
In “The Art of the Impersonal Essay,” Zadie Smith shares a simple structure technique that changed her life. During high school, she writes, “An English teacher took me aside and drew a rectangle on a piece of paper, placed a shooting arrow...
The Story of Number Nine
When I was 23, I left a job as a theater producer in NYC to live in Wellfleet for a year and devote myself to writing. This was one hundred years ago, when there was nothing — nothing — open in the off season there except for the library an...
Rush, Rush, Rush Around
Recently I had an unexpected night free and noticed that at the NY Philharmonic, Barbara Hannigan would be conducting the orchestra while simultaneously performing La Voix Humaine, a solo opera about a woman driven to madness by romantic di...
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Lizzie Simon is a prolific writer, editor and screenwriter, the author of DETOUR (Atria Books) and a former WSJ columnist. Her Substack, Refreshments, delights in the craft of memoir and NYC arts and culture.
A cookbook and children's book author with a lot of big feelings.
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