Faith: Do you have jacks aready planned? Faith: I'm not one of those magical people that has already sold their next book. What i am interested in right now is doing some work that is not writing a giant book, and maybe not even writing criticism. She says she's trying to kind of skip around for projects that use a different energy than writing a book.faith: Thank you so much this interview. We'll be back next week.
Alexandra Lange is a design critic whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and many other publications. Her new book is Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall.
“I really like to write about things that I can hold and experience. I'm not that interested in biography, but I am very interested in the biography of an object. ... Like I feel about the objects, I think, how most people feel about people. So what I'm always trying to do is communicate that enthusiasm and that understanding to my reader, because these objects really have a lot of speaking to do.”
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