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Saturday morning bliss equals the smell of newsprint and fresh coffee.

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good riddance to bad rubbish~* (en BRGR BAR)

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In the Details | Gay Talese

A panoply of eccentric biographical data re: the esteemed author and aesthete.

HIS FATHER, a tailor, provided early instruction on the art of observing human nature: “In the course of [his] fittings … he would measure a man and take the measure of a man at the same time.”

HE NEVER learned Italian (or any language other than English) and never wanted to become a literary expat or foreign correspondent: “America was foreign enough to me. The big story when I was [coming of] age was America.”

AS A boy he rubbed elbows with a young Grace Kelly, whose family came to the Jersey Shore during the summers: “[She] epitomized glamour—even back in the day.”

HE GOT “terrible grades” as a student; 11 colleges rejected him. He excelled not at school curriculum but at “curiosity.”

Read more here. 

Photograph by Gasper Tringale. 

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Gay Talese’s outline for the 1966 classic Frank Sinatra Has a Cold, one of the best long-form magazine pieces ever penned, written on a shirt board. 

(↬ The Paris Review)

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Gay Talese never disappoints.

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home for the summer interning in DC

expectations 

reality 

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When I realize I’m not bikini-body ready

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Use less words // David Foster Wallace.

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4/28 Freddie Gray Baltimore Protest. 

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Today I was literally laughed out of a room when I told a professor I was taking his CS class (intermediate coding) in the fall.

my reaction verbatim:

JUST BECAUSE I’M A FEMALE DOES NOT MEAN THAT I AM INCAPABLE OF LEARNING TECHNOLOGY. The professor proceeded to email me, apologize and explain that while I was welcome in the class, there would be no special accommodations made for “the only girl in the class.” 

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When my mother sees how un-tan I’ve gotten

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This woman is my spirit animal. 

How Amy Schumer Gets Guys To Think Feminists Are Funny | TIME.com

New Inside Amy Schumer, tonight after Tosh.

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Reporter, talking about the future of journalism: “So my only asset is my youth at this point!?”