• “Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta. She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita. Did she have a precursor? She did, indeed she did. In point of fact, there might have been no Lolita at all had I not loved, one summer, an initial girl-child. In a princedom by the sea. Oh when? About as many years before Lolita was born as my age was that summer. You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, exhibit number one is what the seraphs, the misinformed, simple, noble-winged seraphs, envied. Look at this tangle of...
oct 23 2011 ∞
oct 23 2011 +
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  • Pierre-Auguste Renoir
  • Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
  • Amedeo Modigliani
  • Rene Magritte
  • Wassily Kandinsky
  • Arshile Gorky
  • Vincent Van Gogh
  • Pablo Picasso
  • Joan Miro
  • Salvador Dali
  • Paul Gaugin
  • Jackson Pollock
  • Marc Chagall
  • Paolo Roversi
  • Patrick Demarchelier
  • Irving Penn
  • Richard Avedon
  • Herb Ritts
  • Annie Leibovitz
  • Steven Meisel
  • William Eggleston
oct 23 2011 ∞
dec 27 2011 +
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  • The Smiths
  • Bright Eyes
  • Modest Mouse
  • Arcade Fire
  • Fleet Foxes
  • Simon and Garfunkel
  • The Beatles
  • The Shins
  • Tallest Man On Earth
  • The Eels
  • The Strokes
  • Noah and the Whale
  • Matt and Kim
  • The Kooks
  • The xx
  • Pink Floyd
  • The Doors
  • Franz Ferdinand
  • Sonic Youth
  • Bikini Kill
  • Iron and Wine
oct 23 2011 ∞
oct 23 2011 +
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  • Tea
  • Harry Potter
  • Vogue
  • Harpers Bazaar
  • W
  • Nylon
  • Manhattan
  • Woody Allen
  • writing
  • reading
  • photography
  • fashion
  • traveling
  • Europe
  • Lola perfume
  • blazers
  • boots
  • knee-high socks
  • journalism
  • psychology
  • rings
oct 23 2011 ∞
dec 27 2011 +
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  • Charles Bukowski (_Ham on Rye_)
  • Kurt Vonnegut (_Cats Cradle_)
  • Vladimir Nabokov (_Lolita_)
  • Haruki Murakami (_Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman_ - short stories)
  • Albert Camus (_The Stranger_)
  • Ernest Hemingway (_The Sun Also Rises_)
  • F. Scott Fitzgerald (_The Great Gatsby_)
  • Jeffrey Eugenides (_The Virgin Suicides_)
  • Franz Kafka (_Metamorphosis_)
  • J.D. Salinger (_Catcher in the Rye_)
  • Aldous Huxley (_Brave New World_)
  • Chuck Palahniuk (_Fight Club_)
  • e.e.cummings (_all his poems_)
  • Herman Hesse (_Siddhartha_)
  • J.K. Rowling (_Harry Potter_ - obviously!)
oct 23 2011 ∞
oct 23 2011 +
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  • Mad Men
  • Sex and the City
  • Gossip Girl
  • Arrested Development
  • How I Met Your Mother
  • The Office
  • The Nanny
oct 23 2011 ∞
jan 6 2012 +
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  • American Beauty
  • Breakfast at Tiffany's
  • Annie Hall
  • The Royal Tenenbaums
  • A Single Man
  • Masculin Feminin
  • The Darjeeling Limited
  • Vivre Sa Vie
  • Manhattan
  • Midnight In Paris
  • Requiem for a Dream
  • Amelie
  • The Graduate
  • The Virgin Suicides
  • Vicky Cristina Barcelona
  • Pulp Fiction
  • Lost in Translation
  • 500 Days of Summer
  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
  • Somewhere
  • An Education
oct 23 2011 ∞
dec 27 2011 +