What is a line? It’s the strangest thing: a line has gone missing from Tommaso’s favorite drawing, the one he drew all by himself, the one he keeps in his pocket. Lines don’t just disappear, but Tommaso’s has—it’s simply gone. And so he sets out to look for it. Is it there, in the curl of the cat’s tail? Or there, in the antenna of the car? Tommaso’s search continues until he remembers the one special place—and person—he must visit in order to find his line, the very one he drew.

The City Out My Window: 61 Views on New York

Simon & Schuster (Fall 2009)

The book will be a collection of drawings of window views of well-known and lesser-known people. It will show an intimate and otherwise invisible New York, i.e. the one seen through the eyes of its inhabitants, and will tell the reader something more about the person who owns the view. Among the people whose views will be documented are: E.L. Doctorow, Tom Wolfe, Wynton Marsalis, Mark Morris, Oliver Sacks, David Byrne, Richard Meier (left) and Glen Lowry, among others.