Corey Seymour

3 weeks ago | vogue.com | Corey Seymour

If you know Andy Kaufman’s offbeat stand-up work from seeing it—perhaps on Saturday Night Live, in which he featured in the series’s first episode in 1975—you’ve got a lot to learn from Alex Braverman’s new documentary, Thank You Very Much, in theaters today. If you’ve never seen Kaufman’s work, or know about it only from watching Jim Carrey play him in the 1999 film Man on the Moon, even better: You’re in for a revelation.

1 month ago | vogue.com | Corey Seymour

Products are independently selected by our editors. We may earn an affiliate commission from links. Conceptual artist, photographer, author, musician, producer, director, and all-around legend Lee Jaffe has lived the kind of larger-than-life life that makes the times we’re currently living in seem beyond tedious.

1 month ago | vogue.com | Corey Seymour

While tennis insiders and obsessives have been watching 18-year-old Brazilian player Joao Fonseca for months now—at least since he rolled his way through the Next Gen ATP Finals, taking the title at the end of last year—he didn’t start showing up on a wider radar until January, when he shocked eighth-ranked Andrey Rublev in straight sets during the Australian Open’s first round.

1 month ago | vogue.com | Corey Seymour |Theo Wenner |Max Ortega

Ben Shelton didn’t grow up with childhood dreams of being the next Roger Federer, or the next Rafael Nadal. He wanted to be the next Calvin Johnson. “Arguably the greatest wide receiver of all time,” Shelton says, tucked into the back seat of an Escalade crawling through midtown Manhattan. “His nickname was Megatron—he played for the Detroit Lions: six foot five, 240, ran a 4.3 40-yard dash, kind of a freak athlete.

2 months ago | vogue.com | Corey Seymour

Over a career that’s now in its seventh decade, Frederick Seidel has published nearly 20 notable collections of poetry—work that has inspired critics to call him everything from “the best American poet writing today” to “the Darth Vader of contemporary poetry.”Born into a coal fortune in St. Louis in 1936, Seidel is also that rare poet who has never needed to teach, to translate, or to otherwise support himself through writing.