The photographer Kathy Shorr’s new book, “Limousine,” features images of those she drove as a chauffeur in the ’80s. The book “offers a delightful time-capsule view of a bygone era in fashion,” @alex_lily writes. “And of a bygone New York, too.” nyer.cm/sOwfOey
In this sick and depraved world it is my duty to let you know that there are still tickets available to see us CRITICS AT LARGE talk to JULIO TORRES this SUNDAY OCTOBER 27 at the NEW YORKER FESTIVAL so please do come
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I interviewed Rachel Bloom—her special, "Death, Let Me Do My Special," is out tomorrow—about the big stuff: birth, death, dogs, and cum trees.
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For this week's Talk of the Town, I wrote about Adam Dressner, who quit corporate law to become an artist and hasn't looked back. His show "Hello Stranger" is at Grand Central through Thursday 9/26. Go catch a train and check it out.
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hearing reports that my husband listened to the Critics at Large tradwife episode while unloading the dishwasher and cooking the baby's breakfast (I was sleeping)
Chuffed as hell that @JonathanBlitzer's EVERYONE WHO IS GONE IS HERE is long listed for the Baillie Gifford prize for excellence in non-fiction writing.
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This summer, scrutiny of the figure of the “trad wife” hit a fever pitch. On a new episode of our Critics at Large podcast, @vcunningham, @frynaomifry, and @Alex_Lily discuss standout practitioners of the “trad” life style. Listen here. nyer.cm/tSkiOjI
Nobody is funnier on black biracial matters than Danzy Senna, whose “Colored Television”—about a novelist in Hollywood who fails to cash in on her identity—is out today. I profiled her for @NewYorkernewyorker.com/culture/person…