Lynn Barber

1 week ago | spectator.com.au | Lynn Barber

Surreal: The Extraordinary Life of Gala Dali Virago, pp.336, 30 Salvador Dali’s wife Gala was born Elena Ivanova Diakonova in 1894 in Kazan, on the banks of the Volga. Her father was an abusive alcoholic who vanished when she was ten. Her mother, a midwife, moved the family to Moscow where Elena attended an exclusive school. But in 1913 she started coughing, so was sent to a Swiss sanatorium, Clavadel.

1 week ago | spectator.co.uk | Lynn Barber

Text size Small Medium Large Line Spacing Compact Normal Spacious Comments Salvador Dali’s wife Gala was born Elena Ivanova Diakonova in 1894 in Kazan, on the banks of the Volga. Her father was an abusive alcoholic who vanished when she was ten. Her mother, a midwife, moved the family to Moscow where Elena attended an exclusive school. But in 1913 she started coughing, so was sent to a Swiss sanatorium, Clavadel. There she fell in love with a fellow patient, Paul Éluard, who had just...

2 weeks ago | msn.com | Lynn Barber

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2 weeks ago | ca.style.yahoo.com | Lynn Barber

Graydon Carter and his wife, Anna, with (l-r) Diane von Furstenberg, Fran Lebowitz and Wes Anderson at a Vanity Fair party, New York, April 2006.Photograph: Patrick McMullan/Getty ImagesI can’t pretend to be impartial. When I look at the artworks in my house I say “thank you, Graydon” from the bottom of my heart. He hired me as a writer when he first became editor of Vanity Fair in 1992 and paid me a salary beyond my wildest dreams, which I mainly spent on art.

Sep 7, 2024 | hoerzu.at | Nick Hornby |Lynn Barber

» Klug, unterhaltsam und herrlich besetzt «BeschreibungDie 16-jährige Jenny wächst im London der Sechziger Jahre auf und lernt fleißig, um auf Wunsch ihres Vaters in Oxford studieren zu können. Zufällig begegnet sie einem charismatischen Fremden, der sie an einem regnerischen Tag in seinem Sportwagen nach Hause fährt. David ist doppelt so alt wie Jenny und zeigt ihr eine neue Welt. Konzerte, Restaurants und Partys fesseln Jenny bald mehr als ihre Hausaufgaben.