Recently learned of the South African label Black Coffee through the May-June 2010 issue of National Geographic Traveler magazine. Jacques van der Watt and Danica Lepen have designed some great coats for their Fall/Winter 2010 collection that are worth a look. A sample below from the February show at Bryant Park:
Bella Naija has a good summary of the collection as well as many more quality photos like those above.
Halfway through Céline’s Death on the Installment Plan the ellipses started floating under my eyelids like retinal flotsam. I needed a break, a breezy intermission. Browsing the stacks I came across Richard Fariña’s Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me:
My copy of Richard Fariña’s Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me. New York: Dell Publishing, 1969
Oh yeah. I keep meaning to read that. It’s got a Pynchon quote on the back. As it turns out, Been Down So Long has some of the most haunting prose I’ve ever read. Why did I neglect this book for so long?
