- A fascinating piece about Doppelgängers. (NY Times)
- Here’s your rabbit hole of the day: the 102 best movie sequels of all time. (Vulture)
- Amusing. (Curbed)
- A smart piece about that Linda Evangelista British Vogue cover. (Jezebel)
- When women have secret families. (Town & Country)
- Funny. (McSweeneys)
- I’ve been hearing nice things about this week’s episode of Everything is Fine, featuring author/editor Sari Botton, so please do tune in if you haven’t already. (Apple Podcasts)
- This newly resurfaced 1979 interview with Louise Brooks is just fantastic. (New Yorker)
- This abstract underwater photography is just stunning. (My Modern Met)
- And finally, I just started reading—and am loving—this.
How safe are cosmetic procedures anyways? We don’t hear much about worst case scenarios. Linda Evangelista has spread awareness that things can and do go wrong, even to the rich and famous. However, her message is lost with the Vogue cover. Her worst case scenario looks better than most women’s best case scenario. Sure, it took photo shoot magic. But how can we take her disfigurement claim seriously now? She’s so hideously disfigured that she’s gorgeous?
I read Dirtbag, Massachusetts but didn’t like it as much as you and Jen did, though the chapter When your Barber Assumes You’re a Racist too was pretty great. The book title was irresistible, so maybe I went in with too high expectations. I’m reading Teddy Wayne’s The Great Man Theory right now, and while I’m only halfway through, it’s so good. It’s about an idealistic middle aged white man who finds his views on politics and the culture as a whole increasingly out of touch and can’t stop alienating himself. It’s uncomfortably relatable and a total page turner.
I’m sorry I’m going to have to disagree about that Linda Evangelista piece. I don’t think it was smart at all. It’s British Vogue! And no one looks like they really do on a Vogue cover. Just look at Serena on the cover of American Vogue. Linda is right. Vogue sells fantasy. And as I’m a couple of years older than Linda and have never even been remotely beautiful enough to be a model in my youth, or had any procedure that went wrong, even I wouldn’t want to be shown warts and all. Give me all of the tape! I could just be grumpy, but Audra can some day actually interview Linda Evangelista and write the piece that she wished Vogue had, instead of whining about it, and calling it journalism.
Omg McSweenys—hilarious. Thanks for an entertaining Friday round up! I always enjoy these but today’s is especially fun. Thanks and have a great weekend!