Arts & Culture

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  • Wednesday, February 22

    How Yvette Vickers, a B-movie starlet who had appeared in Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman, ended up mummified in her Los Angeles home last year.


    Tuesday, February 21

    A history of erasure as literature.


    Monday, February 20
    / / Feb 2012

    It didn’t matter if these clubs were in Cleveland, Portland, Corpus Christi or Baton Rouge—if it was a nightclub, the owners were the Mob. For a good forty years the Mob controlled American show business.


    / / Feb 2012

    An essay on audio books.


    Sunday, February 19

    Exploring the relationship between authors and their parents.

    It mattered to her that she could have, or might have, been a writer, and perhaps it mattered to me more than I fully understood. She watched my books appear with considerable interest, and wrote me an oddly formal letter about the style of each one, but she was, I knew, also uneasy about my novels. She found them too slow and sad and oddly personal. She was careful not to say too much about this, except once when she felt that I had described her and things which had happened to her too obviously and too openly. That time she said that she might indeed soon write her own book. She made a book sound like a weapon.


    Saturday, February 18
    / / Sep 2005

    A profile of New York chef and fisherman David Pasternack.


    Friday, February 17

    Contemplating Gaudi’s unfinished masterpiece, the Sagrada Familia church, as the controversial finishing work is completed.


    Thursday, February 16

    On House Xtravaganza and the life and death of its house mother Angie Xtravaganza, one of the stars of the documentary Paris is Burning, which brought vogueing and New York City’s transgendered ball culture into the spotlight.


    Wednesday, February 15
    / / Jan 2012
    via @tothemaxxx

    Leonard Cohen’s 2 A.M. set at the disastrous Isle of Wight festival, 1970.


    Tuesday, February 14

    A profile of Quentin Rowan, a.k.a. Q. R. Markham, ‘author’ of last fall’s short-lived spy novel hit Assassins of Secrets, which was pieced together using more than a dozen sources.


    Idleness is not just a psychological necessity, req­uisite to the construction of a complete human being; it constitutes as well a kind of political space, a space as necessary to the workings of an actual democracy as, say, a free press.


    Saturday, February 11

    An interview with a young star.