Chekhov's Mistress
Worried about What to Read this Summer? Let Sundance Help
Okay, both Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid have branched out. One sells sauce, the other champions independent films. But while Butch has turned into Orville Redenbacher, Sundance has turned into, well, Sundance. Selling the independent lifestyle, the Kid has the film festival, a tv channel, a “rustically elegant” resort and an “independent style” retail outlet, selling jewelry, furniture, home decor, clothing and accessories, all “handcrafted by artisans” and guaranteed not to clash with any color.
But that’s not all. Among this collection of monochromatic indieness, you can buy collections of books to compliment your Sundance lifestyle. Exert your independent spirit without having to choose what you read! Take the “Summer Take-Along Tomes” on sale for $88 from a regular price of $98, or “Required Summer Reading” for $88. Yes, they really call them tomes.
In case your concerned that your books won’t fit in your “bright and breezy tote,” Sundance – while not wasting your time with details about the texts themselves – gives the “construction: paperback” and dimensions for each:
Dimensions:
The Alchemist – 5-5/16” Wide x 8” High
The Gastronomical Me – 5” Wide x 8” High
The Liar’s Club – 5” Wide x 8” High
DV – 6” Wide x 9” High
The Golden Gate – 5” Wide x 8” High
The Mansion on the Hill – 5” Wide x 8” High
Rapture – 5” Wide x 8” High
The Butterfly House – 5-1/4” Wide x 8” High
And how should you care for your collection? “Dust with a dry cloth, keep out of direct sunlight as it will make colors fade.”
It’s so easy!
You can “Complete your Sundance Look” with a “Folk Art Adirondack” chair with its “Relaxing angles and homespun charm” or a quilted canvas throw.
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Do you know Nicholson Baker’s essay on this issue? “Lumber,” I think: he deconstructs the catalog for “The Company Store” (upscale linen), taking books that were clearly chosen for their color, their cheapness, reading them, and then suggesting wildly imaginative reasons for the appropriateness of the novel to the particular sheets depicted...It’s a grand satire.
I think the Sundance thing is so confusing and hilarious and so totally & utterly middlebrow. Many of the books are good, but it just seems beyond sad to come across them this way. I find it hard to imagine these books are ever read--serving instead as a prop on the bedstand in the Hamptons House. And yet, well, I find myself imagining some houseguest, some misfit teen, just stumbling upon one of these and having a little revelation…
– Anne Fernald (07/23 at 03:28 PM)
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