Pick of the Issue this week is Paige Williams’s delightful “Boxes,” a Talk story about photographer Susan Schiffman, who takes pictures of apartments “that a regular person can afford.” Williams writes, “In apartment after apartment, she captured the small ways in which tenants arranged their material lives—the positioning of houseplants, the clever storage of clothing.” My favorite sentence in “Boxes” is this beauty: “Schiffman plucked a Nikon from her backpack and started shooting—moody light at the bedroom windows, a bouquet of bodega roses.”
Postscript: Here’s another inspired line from this week’s issue:
The “Display only” sign, scrawled in what looks like purple lipstick, doesn’t apply to the chefs, who carve off octopus tentacles and grab resting racks of ribs within sneezing distance to serve throughout the night. [Shauna Lyon, “Tables For Two: HaSalon”]
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