Ariana Kelly lives in Los Angeles. Her first book Phone Booth will be out in September 2015.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES

Taking the Waters in Desert Hot Springs
For a brief time after its founding in 1941, Desert Hot Springs, California, was a boom town. Eventually, though, the boom went bust....

A Writer at Sea
Geoff Dyer spent two weeks aboard the USS George H. W. Bush. Another Great Day at Sea, recently published by Pantheon, is his remarkable account of that stay....

Going Up?
Without the “vertical railways” of the elevator, not only would cities like New York, Tokyo, and Hong Kong bear no architectural resemblance to their current forms, they would also be radically different social spaces....

Illuminated Manuscripts: On the History of Neon
Triptych Image: Left Panel: Kelly Mark, "Nothing Is So Important That It Needs To Be Made In Six Foot Neon"; Middle ...

The Phantom Phone Booth
On the death and life of great American phone booths...
