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theparisreview:

“What amazed me about it, other than how beautifully designed it was, [were] the huge names that wrote for Holiday: Cheever, Hemingway, O’Hara. For a lot of them, these articles don’t exist anywhere else. So there is this trove of literature that has rarely been read by modern readers.”
—Paris Review Daily contributor Josh Lieberman, quoted in a recent Vanity Fair article on storied American travel magazine Holiday. Lieberman originally wrote about the magazine for The Paris Review Daily.
"That’s especially true for people in professions like law or medicine or finance—or even some crafts like writing or cooking—where the costs of entry to the tribe are high. It takes so much time and sometimes so much money to become a doctor or a lawyer or a vice-president of finance at RBC, that the end result has to be more than a job. And it is: it’s a place in the world; a whole set of virtues and assumptions that people will read into you because you have that career."

Our jobs, our identities, in Canadian Business.

This has become a particular obsession of mine lately—who are you and what do you do? Are they the same thing?

"The Gentrification of the Mind"
Roger Ebert’s Post-It notes, from Esquire.
ringtales:

april 4 cuba
"What matters is that there are people who may get their clients a consistent 12 percent return on investment and there are others who run corporate empires, but I am sure their lives are not anywhere near as rich as mine is, because they don’t know what I know. Just being a great listener to music has made my life impossibly sweet. And all the while, it has kept me clear of any of the many industries that are really just hastening civilization’s decline."
In Bed With Bob Dylan, Elizabeth Wurtzel.
theparisreview:

Christo, Untitled, 1982
"You will be stupid. You will worry your parents. You will question your own choices, your relationships, your jobs, your friends, where you live, what you studied in college, that you went to college at all… If that happens, you’re doing it right."
Ira Glass (via thatkindofwoman)
"Basically, I realized I was living in that awful stage of life between twenty-six to and thirty-seven known as stupidity. It’s when you don’t know anything, not even as much as you did when you were younger, and you don’t even have a philosophy about all the things you don’t know, the way you did when you were twenty or would again when you were thirty-eight."
Lorrie Moore (via snpsnpsnp)