Man Of The Moment: Steve McQueen
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We know we spend a lot of time talking about the trends that we’re feeling or people we’re envious of, but one particular question usually comes up when we’re talking to designers, Who are your style icons? No doubt interviewers have been asking interviewees this question for a minute, but no one ever asks us, and well, aren’t we a little peaked that we never get asked.
Brooklyn Storefronts
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Paul Lacy’s book Brooklyn Storefronts is out, and it is photographs of Brooklyn storefronts. The NY Times has a slideshow up of a few of the images from the book, which you can see here. We would like someone to paint our office with fading glamor. FADER OFFICE GOOD IDEAS MADE AND SOLD HERE in blue and pink script with diamonds and stars.
Jhumpa Lahiri Profile In New York Magazine
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We read a lot. What else is there to do? We listen to music all day, read all night. Many of those nights have been taken up reading and rereading Jhumpa Lahiri’s short stories, and she has a new collection out, Unaccustomed Earth. In Boris Kachka’s short profile for New York magazine, Lahiri talks about her elegant simplicity, something we wish we had a lot more of (we’re gross). “I’m the least experimental writer. The idea of trying things just for the sake of pushing the envelope, that’s never really interested me.” She doesn’t know it, but she just explained why we like Vampire Weekend so much. And Jonathan Safran Foer so little. Zing!
Mike Mills: Fireworks
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We’ve tried to keep up with multi-talented Mike Mills since talking to him and Roman Coppola in FADER 11 (Spring 2002) about their fledgling, now established, production company The Directors Bureau, of which Mills is no longer officially a part. Bureau officials assure us he’s still family, but he’s now working on personal projects like MAJOR MOTION PICTURES and tiny little art books like Fireworks, available for a pittance from Zurich publishers Nieves.
Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn
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Gentrification is just one of those inescapable beasts when it comes to the NYC housing market (but hey, it got us an organic market in Bushwick!) That said, few developments cause enough stir to inspire twenty authors (including some favorites of ours) to contribute to an anthology in defense of their neighborhood. Brooklyn Was Mine is a collection of essays, stories, and poems from notable authors like Jonathan Lethem, Dinaw Mengetsu and Robert Sullivan (plus a whole bunch more) was released Wednesday to directly benefit Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn—a community organization committed to fighting Forest City Ratner’s extensive Atlantic Yards development. The collection is only like fifteen bucks, and there are two readings in the coming weeks to support the organization. There’s more info on the book, the organization and the readings here.
Junot Díaz: Bonus Beats
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The New York Times released their list of 100 notable books of 2007, and we are stoked to have read three of them (and Mothers and Sons kinda killed us so hard it’s a wonder we read anything else), but we’re most proud of our man Junot Diaz and his incredible novel of slang, Trujillo, fucking, not fucking, mongooses, Santo Domingo, Paterson, jogging, tanning, Goths, writing, Akira, love, the forties, the nineties, rings, the boardwalk, immigration, self satisfaction, suicide, and science fiction, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. We spoke to Díaz for issue 49, and snagged some extras from the interview for you, which you can read after the jump. Congratulations, Junot!
Moondoggy
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Remember that LCD Soundsystem song about being there? “I was there building the Great Wall of China/ I was there babysitting Elvis/ I was there combing Josephine Foster’s hair.” Really, Mr Murphy, you could have made it a lot quicker and said “I was there hanging out with Moondog on 54th and 6th in the fifties, tapping out rhythms on trimbas, check out our recordings on 78 before we even had 33, before we had 45. Because Moony clowned everyone a long time before they had bands, before their instruments were invented, before sound and time and place made you a person. To celebrate his blind bearded legacy, come to the Moondog Rising Festival happening in New York tonight and tomorrow and study up with Moondog: The Viking of 6th Avenue.
