Kate Bolick

Kate Bolick creció pensando que acabaría casándose. Incluso tenía una fecha límite para hacerlo: los treinta años. Se concedió hasta entonces para estudiar, experimentar y decidir qué hacer con su vida profesional. Sin embargo, cuando llego a la treintena ese deseo de casarse se habia evaporado. Una nueva decada cargada de ambiciones se abria ante ella. Y el matrimonio se convertia en una molestia. K. Bolick no ha escrito un libro de autoayuda ni una guia inspiracional. A traves de su mirada y de su experiencia consigue explicar como la literatura de Edna St.Vincent Millay, Maeve Brennan, Edith Wharthon, Neith Boyce y Charlotte Perkins Gillman la ayudaron a apasionarse, a no buscar en los demas sino en ella misma, a vivir como una mujer que no necesita de nadie para construir su identidad.

A revealing guide to a career as an interior designer written by New York Times bestselling author Kate Bolick and based on the real-life experiences of the cofounders of the acclaimed Brooklyn firm Jesse Parris-Lambrequired reading for anyone considering a path to this profession.Becoming an Interior Designer takes you behind the scenes to find out what its really like, and what it really takes, to become an interior designer. This artful profession combines visionary creativity and taste with architecture, engineering, and business savvy. Acclaimed Brooklyn-based studio Jesse Parris-Lamb specializes in crafting warm, textured room designs shaped by the people that inhabit them. Bestselling author Kate Bolick shadows founders Amanda Jesse and Whitney Parris-Lamb to show how this dream job becomes a reality. Visit their studio as they as they map out new projects. Watch as they inject beauty and atmosphere into open air lofts and historic brownstones. Decide on the perfect shade of blue that will complete a serene reading room. Gain professional wisdom as Bolick traces the founders paths to prominence, from attending design school and starting a studio, to building top-tier clients and planning landmark redesigns.

Based on the real-life experiences of an expert in the field, an immersive, accessible guide to a career in hairstyling brought to life by acclaimed writer Kate Bolickessential reading for anyone interested in this creative and dynamic profession. Gwenn LeMoine sees the world through the lens of hair. The daughter of two hairstylists, she has taken her natural talent to an entrepreneurial level and is now the owner of Parlor, a wildly popular, two-location hair salon in the East Village and Brooklyn. A pioneer with four decades of expertise in styling eccentric celebrity personalities, LeMoine works with clients such as such as Piper Kerman, Rue McClanahan, Molly Ringwald, Twyla Tharp, and William Wegman, to name only a few. Her work has also been featured on television (SNL, VH1, ETV), in magazines (Real Simple, Nylon, The New York Times, and Paste), and at awards shows, such as the Tonys and Emmys. In Becoming a Hairstylist, Atlantic columnist and New York Times notable author Kate Bolick provides a compelling profile of a career in hair styling through the life of LeMoine, and offers us a glance at a day in the life at Parlor. The perfect resource for anyone interested in a career in cosmetology, Becoming a Hairstylist portrays how to excel as a stylistat any age and for all types of customers.

A New York Times Book Review Notable BookWhom to marry, and when will it happenthese two questions define every womans existence.So begins Spinster, a revelatory and slyly erudite look at the pleasures and possibilities of remaining single. Using her own experiences as a starting point, journalist and cultural critic Kate Bolick invites us into her carefully considered, passionately lived life, weaving together the past and present to examine why shealong with over 100 million American women, whose ranks keep growingremains unmarried.This unprecedented demographic shift, Bolick explains, is the logical outcome of hundreds of years of change that has neither been fully understood, nor appreciated. Spinster introduces a cast of pioneering women from the last century whose genius, tenacity, and flair for drama have emboldened Bolick to fashion her life on her own terms: columnist Neith Boyce, essayist Maeve Brennan, social visionary Charlotte Perkins Gilman, poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, and novelist Edith Wharton. By animating their unconventional ideas and choices, Bolick shows us that contemporary debates about settling down, and having it all, are timelessthe crucible upon which all thoughtful women have tried for centuries to forge a good life.Intellectually substantial and deeply personal, Spinster is both an unreservedly inquisitive memoir and a broader cultural exploration that asks us to acknowledge the opportunities within ourselves to live authentically. Bolick offers us a way back into our own livesa chance to see those splendid years when we were young and unencumbered, or middle-aged and finally left to our own devices, for what they really are: unbounded and our own to savor.

Whom to marry and when will it happen - these two questions define every womans existence.So begins Spinster, a revelatory look at the pleasures, problems and possibilities of living independently in the 21st century, reconsidering what it means - what it could mean - for women to have it all.I wish I could give this wise and subtle book to my thirty-year-old self; she would have taken heart . . . Bold and intelligent Rebecca Mead, author of My Life in MiddlemarchA triumph Malcolm GladwellWomen of the world listen here: drop whatever youre doing and read Kate Bolicks marvelous meditation on what it means to be female at the dawn of the 21st centuryJoanna Rakoff, author of My Salinger YearMoving, insightful and importantElif Batuman, author of The Possessed