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...haven't read a book in a year. I don't read fiction when I'm writing, and it took me a year to write [my new book] Djibouti. I don't like to be reading a book with a certain style while I'm writing one, because I can be influenced by that...
...price-competitive, high-end food. "It's convenient to eat horrible food, and it's so difficult to eat great food. It's O.K. to eat flaming-hot Cheetos and never read books or eat vegetables," he says. "This is where we've come as a country, and I'm not cool with...
...from a tired old formula, he continues: "Get a space in a high-rent district and hire [ultra-opulent interior architect] Adam Tihany to design it. It costs $1.5 [million] to $2 million for you to open a restaurant. So what's your attitude? 'We have to gouge those m____________.'"(Watch Roy Choi turn street food into high...
Deschanel and musician M. Ward have been performing under the unassuming name She & Him since they released their debut album, Volume One, in 2008. "The first copies didn't even have my name on them," says Deschanel. "If no one ever found out that it was me, I wouldn't have cared." It worked. Critics ignored the star's involvement and focused on the music: relaxed songs sung in Deschanel's achingly tender voice, bringing to mind '60s girl groups and the Nashville sound...
Volume Two, which features 11 songs penned by Deschanel (plus two covers) and produced by Ward, has a similar tone but ups the complexity of the arrangements. "It's much more difficult to play live," says Deschanel. "We're in rehearsals now, and I'm like, Oh, man, why didn't I write simpler songs?" The result, however, is clean and intimate--the sound of a duo making music as much for themselves as for an audience. The first single, "In the Sun," is upbeat and danceable, but the standout track is "Thieves"--a brokenhearted love song so timeless that...