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3 weeks ago | 
news.nestia.com | Molly Young
Image Credit...Édouard Manet/Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Larned Coburn Memorial Collection By Molly Young Dear readers,Do you know the difference between an astronaut and a cosmonaut? The distinction rests on where the -naut was trained: Cosmonauts hail from Russia and astronauts from the United States, Canada, or Europe. Not China, though: The Chinese version is a taikonaut. If there exists another job with three different names of equally silky mouth-feel, I cannot think of it.
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1 month ago | 
nytimes.com | Molly Young
A lavish photo book collects images old and new of elaborate estates, manors, chateaus and Schlosses in the European countryside.
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1 month ago | 
flipboard.com | Molly Young
Now A Turbulent Road Trip to Manhood, Loaded Gun in Tow Two teenage boys set out north with few plans and plenty of frustrations in Vijay Khurana’s novel, “The Passenger Seat.” THE PASSENGER SEAT, by Vijay Khurana “The Passenger Seat,” Vijay Khurana’s unsettling and powerful debut novel, follows two teenagers on the fragile cusp of manhood in a Canadian … Now Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Aims to ‘Write a Wrong’ in ‘Dream Count’ In her first novel since “Americanah,” she draws on a real-life...
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1 month ago | 
businessandamerica.com | Molly Young
A benign quirk of humanity is that we are delighted by things designed to look like other things. A bed shaped like a swan. A sauna shaped like a garlic bulb. A toilet brush shaped like a cherry. The designer Elsa Schiaparelli made fashion history with her acts of surreal mimicry, creating buttons in the form of crickets, a compact that looks like a rotary phone dial, a belt buckle of manicured hands. The trick is hardly new.
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2 months ago | 
news.nestia.com | Molly Young
Image Credit...The Museum of Modern Art/Licensed by SCALA, via Art Resource, NY By Molly Young Dear readers,If the retail price of a book were pegged to the number of high-quality ideas it contained, the two books below would sell for downright goofy sums. And by the same logic, a book that contained zero ideas or — worse — lazy or unsupported ones would owe the reader money for squandered time. This is my platform. Vote Molly for president.
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2 months ago | 
flipboard.com | Molly Young
Which Are the Best Houseplants for Releasing Oxygen? 7 Picks That Will Bring a Sense of Freshness to Your HomeThe love for houseplants keeps growing and growing and it's no surprise-as the benefits extend far beyond the aesthetics. The best houseplants for …
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2 months ago | 
flipboard.com | Molly Young
7 hours agoBefore He Formed Led Zeppelin, Jimmy Page Played a Prom in OhioA new documentary about the band’s early days offers a rich backdrop to an unlikely performance of a star on the rise. Back in 2021, I wrote an essay about the great musicians who, surprisingly, had performed at my high school, in Kansas City, in the nineteen-sixties: the Crystals, the Drifters, …NowFail, Caesar!“Remember, I can do whatever I want to whomever I want.” It sounds like President Trump, to the world.
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2 months ago | 
thespread.media | Rachel Baker |Marisa Meltzer |Molly Young
We’re here to reclaim the “women’s magazine.” Every week, two veteran editors read it ALL to bring you everything we believe women’s media should be: juicy yarns, big ideas, deeply personal essays, hot goss, and the odd shopping tip—aka, the full Spread. Plus: original interviews, podcasts, and more. Come hungry!PS: Did someone forward you this email? To get the full Spread every week, become a subscriber here.
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Jan 11, 2025 | 
news.nestia.com | Molly Young
Image The Reader Credit...Eglon van der Neer By Molly YoungDear readers, “This one is INTENSE,” said the bookseller who rang up my copy of Annie Ernaux’s “The Use of Photography.” A shiver transited up and down my spine — a bookseller outburst is as good an omen as a four-leaf clover or an egg with a double yolk. “In what way is it intense?” I asked. “You’ll see,” she demurred. Naturally her coyness functioned as a reading accelerant; I revved home and started the book minutes after purchase.
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Dec 30, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Molly Young
At the height of her mania, Flaherty rose at 4 a.m. to write. On good days language enveloped her like "a hot wind from the tropics, the sort of wind that propels ships carrying peacock feathers and rubies and apes and incense." On bad days "words were like a charnel house" through which she searched for the corpses of the people she loved. Whatever the specific texture of the moment's mood, it was clear to Flaherty that her writing issued from an altered and abnormal state of consciousness.
