- American
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Fun
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- Nov 07, 2020
Men's fashion's tendency toward uniformity promises little fun, but at least it offers this: If I wear sweatpants and sneakers, I can pass as the American it's safest to be.
- Grace
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- Nov 07, 2020
Years ago, I worked at a fashion magazine. I was the lowest man on the totem pole, one of the only men on that particular pole: a little brother with a dozen older sisters whose grace and glamour I so admired.
- Clothes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Usually, when you see clothes on a model, by some transitive property, that garment is imbued with her beauty.
- Fashion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Children's picture books are a unique record of social evolution: in gender roles and racial politics, as is much discussed, but also in fashion and interior design.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
Children's books deal in idealized worlds, so they're a document of how our notion of ideal worlds has changed over time.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Shot glasses make me think of youth and a mode of drinking and living that was never mine, even when I was the age for it.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every sense has the power to transport us through time, but it's taste I find the most mysterious, and writing about it often results in tortured metaphors.
- Dinner
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every Christmas, I cook an elaborate Mexican dinner.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we had our first son, four different people gave us the same present: a copy of Ezra Jack Keats' 'The Snowy Day.' A new child often inspires duplicate gifts - we were given a dozen mostly useless baby blankets, just one more thing to spit up on - but this one was different.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wishing there were more children's books like 'The Snowy Day' is a bit like wishing there were more grownup books like 'Anna Karenina.' There are only so many masterpieces out there.
- Color
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not that a literature for children of color doesn't exist; it's that so much of the extant literature is lacking in the essential quality that makes literature for children so extraordinary a form: imagination.
- Difference
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- Nov 07, 2020
Blackness, any sort of difference, is not a burden. Relegating blackness or other sorts of difference to serious books that explicitly engage with issues creates a context in which it can seem like one.
- Certain Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you are young, it's deeply annoying to be told that certain things are a condition of your youth. There's almost always some condescension in the proposition that your reality, your hopes, your frustrations, are just a condition of your age, that what feels unique to you is a very common thing after all.
- Friendship
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- Nov 07, 2020
That a friendship ends doesn't mean it was weak from the outset; that it ends says nothing about its importance.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't know, at 22, that everything that happens to you, the good stuff as well as the less-good stuff, accrues and becomes your life.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't know, at 22, that regret is useless. If I could go back and change something - give myself some big break, pass along some secret information, reassure myself that most things would, in fact, work out - I don't think I would.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know I've had a charmed experience of being a parent, with healthy kids, a helpful partner, access to good day care, and great public schools.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Parenting advice is mostly useless because every family is uniquely its own; artistic advice is mostly useless because every artist works in their own way. Thus, figuring out how to balance the two has an intense specificity.
- Blame
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- Nov 07, 2020