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“My biggest icon is Liz Taylor because I dont think she had great taste but I loved her energy.”

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Carine Roitfeld, born in September 1954, is a renowned fashion editor. She served as the editor-in-chief of Vogue France and has had a profound impact on the fashion industry. more

“The twentieth century saw a professionalization of fiction writing, particularly in its second half and particularly in the Anglo-Saxon world - not so much mainland Europe, for example. This professionalization is a tragedy. Hand in hand with this - and I have no idea what the causal relations are - there has been a rise in the idea of The Author, so that today one often has the impression that what's selling the book is not the book but the author.”

World Writing Book Today Tragedy Relation Impression Selling

Author:Zia Haider Rahman

“There is snobbery in the idea that the modern cult of celebrity has not touched the lofty realm of letters. We are like visitors to a garden or flower show who wander the pathways and do not notice the beautiful flora but instead exchange murmurs about the appearance of the soil.”

Beautiful Modern Flower Garden Appearance Wander Cult

Author:Zia Haider Rahman

“As Americans, we do love punishment.”

Author:Vanessa Grigoriadis

“I think the better question is: How do we want sexual mores to shift, and what will that do for the American experience of both consensual and nonconsensual sex?”

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Author:Vanessa Grigoriadis

“I finally stopped fretting and tried to think of Donald Trump's election as an opportunity. I didn't shift my thesis but I added some lines, in the Blurred Lines introduction, to my description of the progressive awakening that has happened in this country over the last five years - "Trump's presidency is a macroaggression". I wanted Trump to be a specter from the book's outset.”

Thinking Country Opportunity Election Awakening Progressive Introduction Thesis

Author:Vanessa Grigoriadis

“Once Donald Trump announced that Betsy DeVos was going to be his Education Secretary - a few months before I finished the manuscript - I had a pretty good idea of what was going to happen. He was going to overturn as much of what Barack Obama did, and the attendant social progress, as he could.”

Progress Barack Secretary Social Progress

Author:Vanessa Grigoriadis

“I'm a staunch believer in the effect of pop culture - including advertising and the internet - on the young. Pop culture in its narrowest sense - mass-produced film, TV, and music - either truly reflects what's up in youth culture, or it reflects what youth-filled focus groups have told marketing companies that they want to consume.”

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Author:Vanessa Grigoriadis

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