Writing

FIVE WOMEN GUIDE BOLICK TO THE EMPOWERING SELF DISCOVERY OF “MAKING A LIFE OF ONE’S OWN” IN HER DEBUT MEMOIR, SPINSTER.

by Sara Driscoll

Virginia Woolf tells us what it takes to explore women as both writers and characters in fiction in her 1929 extended essay “A Room of One’s Own.” But what about the act of making a life of one’s own? Kate Bolick writes about her path to self-sustaining happiness in her memoir-cum-historical ode to the women who helped shape her views in her new book, Spinster (Crown), released on April 21.

Post-spring-break, we all crawled back to class, caffeine in hand. The sunny skies of Gulf Shores, Panama City Beach and elsewhere were no more when we all arrived back in Missouri. However, in an exciting turn of events, the sun was shining this week, and MU students took notice in the form of fashion.

Columbia’s free-spirited weather makes planning the day’s outfit a little bit tricky, especially if, like me, you have days where you are on campus from the crack of dawn to the darkening dusk. That’s where outer layers come in handy. Specifically, knit layers.

FILM DIRECTOR, SCREENWRITER, ACTOR, ARTIST AND MOST RECENTLY, NOVELIST, MIRANDA JULY IS A MODERN DAY RENAISSANCE WOMAN WHO BRINGS US A BODY OF WORK THAT SHOWS OFF A PALPABLE VERSATILITY IN THE WORLD OF ART, LITERATURE AND BEYOND.

by Sara Driscoll

From her award-winning book of short stories, “No one belongs here more than you” to her interactive sculpture garden, ‘Eleven Heavy Things’ to her App that doubles as a social experiment ‘Somebody,’ July seems to have dipped her toes into every creative pool of genius out there.

This 1950s-era home in River Oaks, TX, was originally designed by renowned Houston architects MacKie and Kamrath, gifted interpreters of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Usonian vision. Six decades after the home was built, Miller Dahlstrand DeJean Architects crafted a plan to give the residence some much-needed restoration.

With a busy schedule and two kids, interior designer and creator of SKP Designs Sondra Phillips needed a place to escape her hectic day-to-day of life. Given her professional resources and design savvy, she created her own space at home by adding a second-level master suite to her Crooked Lake, Michigan house.

American Gold's spring/summer 2013 line, 'Girl of the Golden West' will have you California dreaming in no time. The collection features English rose and Japanese black daisy prints that are unique to the line, as well as a collaboration with artist Amanda Shadforth.