'It’s this funny weird thing. Four times a year, you get a box of beans — which sounds really stupid, and my house is 100 percent overrun with beans because there’s a limit to how many beans you can make, even if you love them'
Photo: Courtesy of the subject If you’re like us, you’ve probably wondered what famous people add to their carts. Not the JAR brooch and Louis XV chair, but the hand sanitizer and the electric toothbrush. We asked Lisa Lucas — the executive director of the National Book Foundation, which announces its 2019 National Book Award winner tonight — about the bookcases, slippers, and subscription bean club she can’t live without.
$94 at Catbird Buy Poppin White Signature Ballpoint Pens $7 for 6 $7 for 6 at The Container Store Buy Apica Notebook Buy at Amazon Buy Buy at Amazon Buy I’m on email and my phone all the time, but I edit by hand and I read on paper if it’s a longer document. I use notebooks every single day and I feel devoted to the Apica one — I like the paper. I think they’re pretty. I take all of my notes in a notebook, so I use these pens. They’re nice, but they’re also cheap.
$205 at Dinosaur Designs Buy Corkcicle Canteen $30 I’m chronically under-hydrated and I’m trying to do better and I’m hoping that hot pink will save me. $10 at Amazon Buy $10 at Amazon Buy Tula Probiotic Skincare Purifying Face Cleanser From $10 I’m a little obsessive about beauty products, and I feel like the Tula Purifying Face Wash is the perfect cleanser. I use it in the morning and at night. It doesn’t dry you out. It’s probiotic, which, I don’t know if that means anything, but I hope it does and it’s done me right for the obsessive period during which I’ve been devoted to it.
$135 at Hi Wildflower Buy “A.C.” by Adrian Tomine Print From $125 There was this moment where I worked briefly at a comic-book shop called Desert Island in Williamsburg, which is where I live and have lived for a long time. It’s such a gorgeous store. I was a late adopter to comics, but once I discovered comics and graphic novels it was something that was really, really exciting to me — and Desert Island introduced me to some of the most beautiful illustrators and writers.
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