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Are great bookstores just good capitalism? People are more concerned with being fat than with eating disorders, if we go by the number of books in each respective section at one blogger’s local bookstore. A Tennessee bookstore will include a restaurant inside of it.
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I wanted to uncover the nest of wires comprising my gender identity and describe its complicated mass.
...moreVogue is turning 100 this year, and to celebrate they’ve pulled a favorite piece from their archives: Virginia Woolf, addressing what it is to love the work of an author, and why.
...more“We’re so lonely in our processes,” July laughs of the plight of so many creative types, “that it’s just fun—like, ‘Wow, we get to email with each other!’ when usually for both of us it’s a very solitary process from start to finish.” In addition to being a writer and performance artist, Miranda July also designs […]
...moreThe act of anointing Joan Didion as our favorite, our best, our everything, is the act that reveals what we’re trying to say: that we’re cool, that we’re educated, that if we are not young and white and slender and well-dressed and disaffected and sad and committed to the art of writing as an arduous […]
...moreJezebel wonders whether Vogue photoshopped Sugar/Cheryl Strayed in their recent interview. We don’t have an answer, but it’s sadly clear that Strayed doesn’t look like her beautiful self–or “like anyone,” as Jezebel puts it–in the photo.
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