Was that cannon fire, or is it my heart pounding?
- Ilsa to Czech boy in Casablanca ;-)
Rob Walker on a brand that appeals to the toughest consumers: the ones who are sick of brands. One of our most enduring dilemmas is the compatibility of the rational and irrational. It’s hard to embrace the joyous mysteries of life when you are constantly contending with that over-bearing human desire to understand. To know or not to know - that is the question. Faux Logo
Forty years ago, on May 16, 1966, American rock music grew up - Blonde on Blonde The Day That Changed Rock ’n’ Roll
Art of Living & Literature Across Frontiers: Lila, Intellectualite: Peripatetic Nabokovian
While lots of bright-eyed young women come to New York to take acting classes or become publicists, Lila Azam Zanganeh—an Iranian-French journalist, amateur opera singer and self-described Nabokov scholar—has other plans.
Perhaps being a public intellectual is being able to write, but also to be connected to the world. I mean, it sounds almost childish, but I would say that’s really, really my dream. And I hope that I can do it. I don’t have unrealistic expectations
• Lila Azam Zanganeh represents a curious phenomenon in the New York literary world: the intellectualite, a person with highbrow aspirations who attends enough parties to make David Patrick Columbia’s head whirl A curious phenomenon [[S]lackers make big news when the world of work undergoes serious structural change - The lure of the seaside hammock calls, but frankly the rest of us have to get back to work Doing Nothing A History of Loafers, Loungers, Slackers, and Bums in America; That feeling you have that you are special? It's all too common: Media Dragon of Gut Instincts]
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