Happy Weekend

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"There's only one very good life, and that's the life that you know you want, and you make it yourself."

--Diana Vreeland

"Cowardice is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination."

--Ernest Hemingway

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Gore Vidal (Oct. 3, 1925 - July 31, 2012) in 1947.

Photograph by Jerry Cooke / Time & Life Pictures

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I am obsessed with this photograph of Joan Didion and her white Corvette Stingray.

Joan Didion, 1970.
Julian Wasser/Time Life Pictures

And this one:

Joan Didion, Hollywood, November 1970

How much does she rock?

New York magazine had an interesting (and sad) article a couple of months ago about Didion and her new memoir, Blue Nights. Read it here.

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Wooooo magazine's Jason Crombie as Joan Didion's butler? Gold.

Get the new Wooooo (featuring interviews with James Franco, Alex Olson, Maura B. Jacobson, Grace Slick, Jane Moseley, MellowHype, Alek Wek, Michael Rapaport, Warren Smith, Les Moonves, Matthew Griffin, and Jay Howell) here. And by 'get it here' we mean get it.

Words and Verbs

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It seems that perfection is attained not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing more to take away.

-Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900-1944)

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Author and illustrator Edward Gorey, who died in 2000,
snoozing with his cats.

The Ivies score again. Columbia University Libraries announced this week that it received a gift of more than 700 drawings, etchings, and posters by Edward Gorey. The collection, donated by Andrew Alpern, a lawyer and architectural historian, includes nearly every edition of every work that Gorey published during his lifetime. (On a somewhat unrelated topic, it looks like there's a documentary on Gorey in the works.)


Gorey's original (and best) credits for PBS's "Mystery."

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Gloomy old Samuel Beckett sporting his vacation attire
in Tangier, 1978 (click to enlarge).
From photographer Francois-Marie Banier's new book, Beckett.
More info at Bookforum; to purchase, go here.