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Tony Judt Straus Park, New York, 1997; photograph by Dominique Nabokov “ Identity” is a dangerous word.
Edge People by Tony Judt | NYRBlog
She started as a pin-up, that medium of titillation most popular in the 1940s and 1950s. Marilyn spent hundreds of hours in front of the still camera; such was her appeal that the accomplished photographer Richard Avedon reached for superlatives when he spoke of her: “She gave more to the still camera than any actress—any woman—I’ve ever photographed….She was able to make wonderful photographs with almost any photographer, which is interesting—and rare.”
Marilyn by Larry McMurtry
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MAUPASSANT, Promenade; Thierry Selva
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Berka, portrait de Casanova à 62 ans © BnF, Réserve des Livres rares Quiconque a feuilleté les Mémoires de Casanova sait combien la plume du célèbre libertin est vive, pétulante, talentueuse, offrant une véritable excursion au cœur de l’Europe prérévolutionnaire. Mais étonnamment, dans le microcosme intellectuel, c’est du personnage dont il est beaucoup question, et les écrivains qui se sont penchés sur son cas ne tarissent pas de périphrases dithyrambiques à son égard : " l’admirable ", " génie de la séduction ", " ami des femmes ", " producteur de fête ", " galant homme ", " menteur flamboyant " etc.
Casanova, le libertin porté aux nues - Littérature
Jonathan Franzen
Important is a problematic word, particularly when prefaced by the modifier most and especially when prefaced by the modifier only . To classify a man as important is very different from merely calling him great, because an important person needs to matter even to those who question what he's doing.If you met the novelist Neal Stephenson a decade ago, you would have encountered a slight, unassuming grad-student type whose soft-spoken demeanor gave no obvious indication that he had written the manic apotheosis of cyberpunk science fiction (1992's Snow Crash , in which computer viruses start invading hacker minds). It wasn't his debut--he'd published two earlier novels in the 1980s--but the book was such a hit that it put his name on the science fiction map in a way the earlier efforts had not.
Neal Stephenson’s Past, Present, and Future: The author of the widely praised Baroque Cycle on science, markets, and post-9/11 America
Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov lives with his wife Véra in the Montreux Palace Hotel in Montreux, Switzerland, a resort city on Lake Geneva which was a favorite of Russian aristocrats of the last century. They dwell in a connected series of hotel rooms that, like their houses and apartments in the United States, seem impermanent, places of exile.This is a rush transcript.