I love people. Everybody. I love them, I think, as a stamp collector loves his collection. Every story, every incident, every bit of conversation is raw material for me. My love's not impersonal yet not wholly subjective either. I would like to be everyone, a cripple, a dying man, a whore, and then come back to write about my thoughts, my emotions, as that person. But I am not omniscient. I have to live my life, and it is the only one I'll ever have. And you cannot regard your own life with objective curiosity all the time.
My name is Tabiatha and I like cake.
theparisreview: Reading Rachel Kushner’s new novel The Flamethrowers? Check out the author’s photo essay on the book’s inspirations. Image credit Danny Lyon, 88 Gold Street (detail), 1967, black-and-white photograph, dimensions variable. From the series “The Destruction of Lower Manhattan,” 1967. “The same year that Larry Fink photographed Black Mask on Wall Street,” Kusher writes, “Danny Lyon methodically captured with a view camera the vast demolition of Lower Manhattan, much of it coming down for the construction of the Twin Towers. Factories and warehouses to be replaced by finance, which gives literal shape to a significant transformation of the seventies: the death of American manufacturing.”

theparisreview:

Reading Rachel Kushner’s new novel The Flamethrowers? Check out the author’s photo essay on the book’s inspirations.

Image credit Danny Lyon, 88 Gold Street (detail), 1967, black-and-white photograph, dimensions variable. From the series “The Destruction of Lower Manhattan,” 1967. “The same year that Larry Fink photographed Black Mask on Wall Street,” Kusher writes, “Danny Lyon methodically captured with a view camera the vast demolition of Lower Manhattan, much of it coming down for the construction of the Twin Towers. Factories and warehouses to be replaced by finance, which gives literal shape to a significant transformation of the seventies: the death of American manufacturing.”

funkypresident:

Girlfriend in a Coma came on the other day, and I wondered why Morrissey isn’t more of a style reference despite his popularity. His style résumé can still bear currency today…

Tweedy coats and cool-guy specs. White denim. Sprezzy collars and aviators. Western shirts. Air ties and half-tucks. The Man-Brooch (OK, maybe not the man-brooch (mooch?) but this was the 80s).

And #Menshair.  Lots and lots of #Menshair.

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expensivelife: “In March, due to a natural phenomenon, Siberia’s Lake Baikal is particularly amazing to photograph. The temperature, wind and sun cause the ice crust to crack and form beautiful turquoise blocks or ice hummocks on the lake’s surface.” Photograph by Alexei Trofimov

expensivelife:

“In March, due to a natural phenomenon, Siberia’s Lake Baikal is particularly amazing to photograph. The temperature, wind and sun cause the ice crust to crack and form beautiful turquoise blocks or ice hummocks on the lake’s surface.” Photograph by Alexei Trofimov

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