While we love browsing dust jackets of newbie authors hoping to discover the next Nicole Krauss, sometimes it’s just easier to let someone else do the discovering for you.

That’s why we love the Literature Chick blog written by a New York woman who manages to devour several books a month, posting  reviews of  enticing titles like The Woman Who is Always Tan and Has a Flat Stomach,  The Girl Who Stopped Swimming, How to Teach Filthy Rich Girls and Grub. She even gives a nod of approval to Canada’s own Leah McLaren (The Continuity Girl) and interviews authors we might never get to meet.  

Read up at http://literaturechickarchives.blogspot.com/

If you’ve ever thought of dropping everything and moving to New York, we’re right there with you, girl.

And that’s what Vancouver art publicist and vintage fashion maven Shannon Heth just did.

Live vicariously through her new blog that has her running around organizing VIP art openings, bluffing her way into the Marc Jacobs show at Fashion Week (complete with candid Marc pics) and sweet talking her way into a sold out show at the Bowery Ballroom.

We miss you already Shannon.

Read her blog at:

www.itgirlvancouver-newyork.blogspot.com