Archive for the ‘New York City’ Category

“I live on a high floor of a Chelsea high-rise with my husband, the filmmaker Jonathan Lisecki. My study is stereotypically overstuffed with books and CDs. On the desk I keep well-thumbed reference works—the Chicago Manual of Style, Strunk’s Source Readings in Music History, and Paul Griffiths’s Penguin Companion to Classical Music—together with two books […]

“My writing desk is right out in the middle of the living room.  That’s how it often is in Manhattan apartments, where space is tight, and it only really matters when we have overnight guests who feel a need to sit at the breakfast table or on a couch, which are also in the living […]

“My desk is located against a wall on the 22nd floor of the Condé Nast building in Times Square.  The metallic mesh walls that encase the space contain the sum of my workplace personal effects. To my left, I hung two printed-out photos (Rod Blagojevich shaking his fist and Michael Jackson sitting with E.T.); to […]

“My desk is styled, at all times, as if it was to be photographed. I see visually and parts of my home are framed and created for maximum visual impact. Especially my desk. Because I write a lot I surround myself with color and items -toys, posters, electronics, art- to distract me. To fight off […]

“Here’s where I have spent a good part of this summer. Sure, I have a desk at home, surrounded by books and archives and mementos. But that would be the thing I’d miss the least, should I have to let it go. I like to travel light. I tend to pare my equipment down to […]

Steve Heller wears many hats (in addition to the New York Yankees): For 33 years he was an art director at theNew York Times, originally on the OpEd Page and for almost 30 of those years with the New York Times Book Review. Currently, he is co-chair of the MFA Designer as Author Department, Special Consultant […]