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Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy

The ghost of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy.

on the urge to recreate images of a doomed couple.

Paparazzi hauntology

Fran Drescher as Fran Fine in The Nanny

Not Emily. Not Bella.

finds that The Nanny is different than she remembered.

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Fran in New York

Daisy Edgar-Jones as Marianne in Normal People, 2020. (Enda Bowe/Hulu)

Marianne Normal People

More like Normcore People.

on the vanguard of popular literature and popular fashion, via drab Dublin.

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Uniqlo is Sally Rooneycore

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Magazines aren't consolidating because they suddenly had a crisis of conscience, you rubes.

on Franca Sozzani and cynical solutions to the problem of the glossy magazine “imperial editor.”

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Imperial magazine editors

Keith McNally

On appreciating a problematic follow.

on the restaurateur’s chaotic Instagram.

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Keith McNally's wonderful, horrible, messy Instagram

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What's in a face?

on Elsa Peretti, Anouk Aimée and YouTube.

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My women

Fran Lebowitz in Pretend It's a City, 2021. (Netflix)

Pretend Its A City 

On Fran Lebowitz and power in media.

on New York bohemianism, money, and chasing your own narrative.

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Pretend it's a living

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