Hi, I'm Karissa, a people- and product-oriented, detail-obsessed consultant, strategist, and creative from Los Angeles. I graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with degrees in English literature and economics. I currently live and work in New York City, where I remain, as ever, a voracious reader, avid vintage shopper, and very fast walker.*
Get in touch at karissafho@gmail.com.
Reading
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The Odyssey, tr. Richmond Lattimore
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The Big Sleep (1939) by Raymond Chandler
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Interpreter of Maladies (1999) by Jhumpa Lahiri
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California after the rain. Sublime!
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I did like Wake Up Dead Man, actually, and found it a thoughtful-for-Hollywood meditation on how Jesus conducted Himself WRT His life on earth. I also feel, however, that no movie could ever actually come close to reflecting what my real and living faith looks like. So it's hard for me to take these things seriously.
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Reading The Odyssey now feels like seeing an old, dear friend for the first time in many years, On that note, Odysseus cries more than I remembered!
*I like the first Jason Bourne movie, Pearl Jam, weddings, Georgia O'Keeffe's flowers, Joan Didion's essays, Munch's woodcuts, Magritte's weird neighborhoods, and Cezanne's "unfinished" landscapes. I drink mostly hot water, write long letters to my friends, do my best work very late at night, and am almost always cold. I strongly dislike coffee, slow drivers, sycophants, and spiders.