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I'm in favour of hipster androgyny: Any trend that permits men to rebel against strict gender rules of appearance is going to make the world a... →
If you tell your husband or boyfriend for his whole life that he needn't worry about his clothes, that he couldn't possibly understand them... →
In the best stories, people are morally complex; they are flawed. We read them because the world is flawed, and we want to see it truthfully... →
Increasingly, to dismiss any popular artistic style is seen as the worst kind of snobbery. And snobbery, it goes without saying, is unacceptable in a... →
It's great that I can look up a fact instantly on my cellphone, but I miss the days in my room with a dog-eared, text-heavy paperback, immersed... →
Kindle Worlds is a clever way to monetize a formerly underground trend, and to enable its participants to be remunerated. But it will be of no... →
My father was a graduate student at Oxford in the early 1960s, where the conventions and etiquette of clothing were crucial to the pervasive class... →
No matter how fine your suit and your shoes, you will remind everyone that you are not yet a grownup man by wearing them with your old college... →
Personally, I see little distinction between an artistic mentality and criminality. You couldn't possibly create a compelling story without some... →
Songs are great. I love songs. I sing them in the shower sometimes. They can be poignant or cheery or angry, and they can have catchy and satisfying... →
The only pleasurable part of taking the subway, as everyone will agree, is concocting elaborate fantasies about what it would be like to be married... →
The YA category is an entirely new one, and seems to have more to do with readability than with age group or theme. The adult YA readers I know do... →
There is actually no such thing as an Artist type. 'Artist' is just an economic designation, a box you tick on a form. We are all people, and... →