Gift Guide

1 month ago | giftguide.substack.com | Kaitlin Phillips

Ivan Gaytan, Gift Guide’s Art World Correspondent, is back with a guide to what art shows are worth seeing in New York right now. I’ve also asked him to write about what wine excites him: where to drink it, where to buy it. Ivan is sort of famous in our friend group for being a man who dines alone at fine restaurants in New York City. He brings a book. In late 1871 Cézanne lived across from Napoleon’s Halle aux Vins where barrels were kept outside stacked next to one another.

2 months ago | giftguide.substack.com | Kaitlin Phillips

My first paid writing job was for New York magazine, when I was at Barnard. I wrote recaps of the show Girls, which I turned in overnight. I received $200, maybe $250, per recap. (I was a scholarship student doing work study in the video library, and living off an internship grant Columbia gave me to work at n+1. In the summers, I was still working as a hotel maid back home for $7.80/hr, which made me want to kill myself.