I’m romping through my library copy of Empire of the Elite like it’s a Four Seasons martini lunch. I will never tire of reading about how the problematic sausage of culture is made!!
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OMG NEED TO READ THIS! Good rec / reminder!!!!!!!
Have you read Big Fiction by Dan Sinykin or Avid Reader: A Life Inside Stories by Robert Gottlieb? Both sooo interesting if you're into publishing history
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A Side of Ranch: when I dip, you dip, we dip
“Aside from the fact that the description of the Condé Nast lunchroom seating chart gave me literal heart palpitations, this read was a true delight. It even inspired me to make a decades spanning playlist from the heyday of elite curation, with a few needle drops from the book itself: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7lMIhAPaxUazrHegpnzDWj?si=kcuOPPHPRe6hYbj0Mvb5-Q&pi=te0mDgpYR7WVH”

Ella McMahan
“If you love Devil Wears Prada, you’ll love this. You’ll realize most of the major moments from the past few decades involved Condé.”


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