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N othing is warmer than a well-stocked library on a fall night. Add a roaring fire, and it's heaven. Between my home, my office, and my farm, I must have thou- sands of design, fashion, gardening, and architecture books, both new and vintage, as well as strange little memoirs on stylish and fascinating lives; these are the books from which I seem to remember passages, that I pull out again and again and reread every few years. Throughout this issue and last month's issue, we look at several new books that beg to be on your bookshelves: Michelle Nussbaumer's Wanderlust, Mark Sikes' Beautiful, All-American Decorating and Timeless Style, and, this month Marfa Modern, Interior Design Master Class: 100 Lessons from America's Finest Designers on the Art of Decoration, John Derian Picture Book, and Neltje Doubleday's memoir North of Crazy — all are jewels to be sure, and well worth the space in your bookshelves. But I want to list some of the more obscure, as well as classic books that have pride of place on my shelves. The Irrational Journey by Pauline de Rothschild (1966), Alex, the Life of Alexander Lieberman by Dodie Kazanjian (1993), The Unexpurgated Beaton: The Cecil Beaton Diaries as He Wrote Them, 1970-1980 (2003) and Beaton's The Glass of Fashion (reprinted 2014), Van Day Truex: The Man Who Defined Twen- tieth-Century Taste and Style by Adam Lewis (2001), ALT: 365 by Andre Leon Talley (2005), Living Well is the Best Revenge by Calvin Tomkins (reprinted many times since its 1971 debut), Making It New: The Art and Style of Sara and Gerald Murphy by Deborah Rothschild and Calvin Tomkins (2007), Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald (first printed 1934), The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (1926), Elsie de Wolfe: A Life in the High Style by Jane Smith (1982), Friends & Memories by Fleur Cowles (1978), These Were the Hours by Nancy Cunard (1969), and Slim: Memories of a Rich and Imperfect Life by Slim Keith (1990). And I think I'll leave you with that. Holly Moore Editor in Chief holly@papercitymag.com letter editor HUNT SLONEM 10