Badlands etc.

Say Margiela-era Hemès three times fast

Briefly stopping in to say that:

I have fiction in the new issue of Granta—172, “Badlands”—which also features writing by (!) Annie Ernaux, William T. Vollman, Sharon Olds, Frederick Seidel, Paul Muldoon, Julián Herbert, Brittany Newell, Leopold O’Shea, Stephanie Wambugu, Diane Williams, Nasim Luczaj, and George Prochnik.

My story is free to read on the site for a limited time, as are a few others.

Lara Koleji is currently in possession of at least four (!!) perfect Margiela-era Hermès t-shirts in light neutral shades. I bought the taupe one, letting its (accidentally?) lower price be the deciding factor.

The yet-to-be-released 6397 Pre-Spring 2016 look book features Camille Henrot photographed by Peter Sutherland and styled by Haidee Findlay-Levin. I love an artist as model/muse moment.

In response to my post on Materialists (sort of), reader Aidan Larned suggested I watch this Robert Altman-produced 1978 drama Remember My Name, which is free on Tubi and incredible. I’d never heard of it!

This talk at Artists Space is today.

I have a few thoughts about Love Island USA, mainly the way they talk and how linguistic discourse got a few contestants into trouble—but I’m afraid everyone is sick of it now?