Email Author Deborah Picker

2000 Stories by Deborah Picker

• The Coffee Table

  published December 28, 2000

  Okay. Twelve books. Two pages. And four days to go until Christmas. Take this down: Each of the 50 grainy, hand-tinted color plates... More >>

• The Coffee Table

  published December 28, 2000

  Okay. Twelve books. Two pages. And four days to go until Christmas. Take this down: Each of the 50 grainy, hand-tinted color plates... More >>

• Back to the Depression

  published December 14, 2000

  She’s pretty, Heidi Julavits, in a collegiate sort of way, fresh and blond and bright. But her fiction is decidedly bleak. In her debut novel... More >>

• Art, California

  published October 26, 2000

  This Sunday, October 22, LACMA opens its doors to its ”mid-century indoor-outdoor and lifestyle room with patio overhang.“ No, the muse... More >>

• Home School

  published October 12, 2000

  ARCHITECTURE L.A. AT THE HAMMER UCLA Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Blvd. October 8 through December 14   I... More >>

• Flex in the City

  published August 17, 2000

  Thomas Beller plays a little trick on me. The young Manhattan-based fiction writer -- whom The New York Times has called ”brilliant“ and t... More >>

• A Vine Afternoon

  published June 1, 2000

  Drinking chilled white wine is like sipping summer. Despite my inability to wax properly on the color, clarity, bouquet or finish... More >>

• Naked Brunch

  published April 27, 2000

  Photo by Geoffrey Grahn It was a budgetary compromise — it’s not like I get off on running around naked in public. We were ... More >>

• X-Rated eBay

  published March 16, 2000

  I made $14 selling my used panties on eBay. See, I got curious about the ”panty people,“ as I‘ve dubbed them, who pawn off th... More >>