¶ They wouldn’t let John Galliano read Keith Richards’s autobiography in rehab; John Crace lists a few titles that might have done the impulse-challenged designer some good. (Our Daily Read)

¶ Charles Simic offers an elegant proof that youth is wasted on youth. (NYRBlog)

Where are the long, lazy summers of my youth when I sat moping from morning till night unable to think of anything interesting to do? I recollect walking up to a mirror and repeating with greater and greater conviction, “Life is boring.” On such days, the old clock barely budged, just to spite me. You fool, I’m thinking today, that was pure bliss.

¶ Who was Rogers and who was Peet? Explained. (Ivy Style)

¶ Why the Museum needs to be bigger: Mondoblogo’s Not on View #2: the Met.

¶ Ted Scheinman explains the “why now?” of James Agee’s Cotton Tenants, a book that we’ll all have read or claim to. (The Awl)

¶ Lydia Kiesling’s hostile reaction to Tao Lin’s Taipei is not your father’s hatchet job. (The Millions)

 

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