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Hanya Yanagihara

American Novelist

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I live in Soho in lower New York; there's tons and tons of tourists right outside my door step, obviously. Most of them are European, and all of them have guidebooks. I never see anyone looking at a phone. Hanya Yanagihara

Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop. Hanya Yanagihara

Work Quality Before Complexity Directly Retail Arm Opened Renowned Shop Room Produced Across Large Workshop Even Among

The original Grand Tour would generally begin in Belgium or the Netherlands before moving through Paris, Geneva, Spain, Italy, and perhaps Greece. Hanya Yanagihara

Before Would Netherlands Paris Through Tour Generally Geneva Perhaps Italy Greece Begin Grand Spain Moving Original Belgium

The first thing many tourists see in Hawaii is concrete - a long dreary stretch of it through landscapes dominated by sad, cheap apartment buildings and almost entirely denuded of plant life. Hanya Yanagihara

Sad Life Plant Long First See Dreary Entirely Hawaii Through Cheap Tourists Almost First Thing Buildings Concrete Dominated The First Thing Apartment Landscapes Many Thing Stretch

The beauty of a Moroccan riad is undeniable, but even the most die-hard fan may find herself growing a little weary of what can come to feel like a one-size-fits-all aesthetic: tilework, white Berber rugs, woolen tribal throw pillows in reds and ochers, cut-metal lanterns. Hanya Yanagihara

Unlike Milan, Italy's banking capital, or Rome, its religious center, Florence was the place where the rich went to buy goods that would showcase how wealthy they were. Hanya Yanagihara

Buy Rich Unlike Would Wealthy Religious Goods How Were Italy Banking Where Center Rome Place Capital Milan Showcase Florence

Between their rise in the thirteenth century and their sudden fall in the seventeenth, when the line abruptly ended, the Medicis produced three popes, two queens, and many Florentine rulers, and they supported the work of Galileo, Michelangelo, Leonardo, and Botticelli - a veritable parade of geniuses. Hanya Yanagihara

Anyone who has been to India - specifically Rajasthan, the rich and kingly region in the country's northwest - knows that when it comes to adornment, Indians do not think like other people. Hanya Yanagihara

People Country Rich Think Other Has-Been India Indians Adornment Like Knows Been Northwest Anyone Region Who Specifically

Hong Kong has plenty of superlative hotels, amazing food, and cool shopping. Hanya Yanagihara

Food Shopping Amazing Hong Kong Plenty Hotels Kong Cool

I think there are patterns of the aftermath of colonization that you see echoed in cultures and communities across the world. Hanya Yanagihara

You World Think See Colonization Cultures Aftermath Patterns Across Communities

I love how Vietnamese cuisine always tastes like flowers, and how they had the ingenious idea of pairing that floral flavor with seafood: such a combination shouldn't work as well as it does. Hanya Yanagihara

Work Love Had Idea Combination Like Well Does Always How Cuisine Tastes Flavor Ingenious Vietnamese Seafood Flowers

Every traveler knows too well the endless quest for the perfect travel bag: the one that's stylish enough to carry through Paris, sturdy enough to tote around Peru, and - most important - doesn't make your shoulder sag even before you've loaded it up with everything you need for a day of sightseeing. Hanya Yanagihara

Day You Travel Important Before Every Too Enough Everything Carry Paris Perfect Through Bag Most Well Make Knows Around Stylish Quest Up Endless Shoulder Your Peru Even Traveler Loaded Need

Kashmir, the 86,000-square-mile region in India's north, both is and isn't the India of the popular imagination. Hanya Yanagihara

Imagination India Both North Region Kashmir Popular

Once you join the queue for the immigration line, pay attention to what the expeditor tells you. Have your papers ready. Don't have your cell phone out. Take off your hat. Open your passport to the page with your photo and present it to the immigration officer already open. Hanya Yanagihara

You Cell Phone Phone Immigration Pay Pay Attention Once Papers Out Photo Tells Hat Join Take Open Attention Ready Line Passport Off Queue Officer Cell Page Your Present

No religion makes more use of color than Hinduism, with its blue-skinned gods and peony-lipped goddesses, and even the spring festival of Holi is focused on color: Boys squirt arcs of dyed water on passersby or dump powder, all violently hued, on their marks. Hanya Yanagihara

Eating local is a relatively new concept in American dining; for the Italians, it's a way of life. Hanya Yanagihara

Life Local Relatively Way Dining Eating New Concept Italians American

I think fiction writers should work. If you have a job and are not living off advances or grants, you never have to make concessions in your writing, ever. Hanya Yanagihara

Work You Writing Job Living Think Writers Never Advances Make Off Fiction Fiction Writers Should Your Grants Ever

I always wanted to be a scientist. I don't really have any writer friends. Hanya Yanagihara

Writer Always Scientist Friends Any Wanted Really

It's a funny thing about cities: Some have brief, bright moments of cultural and political dominance, decades- or centuries-long spells when they seem the center of their particular nation, or region, or empire... only to later fall into obscurity and disrepair, never to regain their former glory. Hanya Yanagihara

Funny Political Fall Nation Funny Thing Spells Later Cities Some About Seem Only Obscurity Never Empire Particular Glory Cultural Dominance Decades Regain Center Former Region Moments Brief Bright Thing

One of the writers I most admire is Hilary Mantel because in the middle of her career, she just changed paths entirely and became just a totally different novelist. Hanya Yanagihara

Changed Admire Totally Entirely Writers Hilary Most She Became Because Paths Just Middle Different Novelist Her Career

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