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  This New Book Unlocks the Secrets of the Most Beautiful Italian Interiors

  VOGUE.COM - By Lilah Ramzi

  It makes sense for a book celebrating the high achievements of Italian interior design to have been born during Milan’s Salone del Mobile, the city’s annual design fair. “The idea took shape when I ran into Emilia Terragni, Phaidon’s publisher,” says interiors expert and Milan-based writer Laura …

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  Shopping for Bibliophiles? The Best Books to Gift in 2024

  VOGUE.COM - By Lilah Ramzi

  The best books to gift this holiday season offer more than just a good read: each one is an experience, a conversation-starter, and a few even make the grade as lifelong keepsakes. Whether you’re shopping for a literature enthusiast, a design lover, a budding host, or a fashion fanatic, this year’s …

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  ‘You Are Allowed to Fight for Your Story’: Sarah LaBrie on Her Bracing Memoir

  VOGUE.COM - By Emma Specter

  In 2017, Sarah LaBrie was honing her craft as a television writer in Los Angeles when she received a call from her grandmother: LaBrie’s mother, a complex and occasionally frightening figure in her daughter’s life and memories due to her schizophrenia, had recently been admitted to a psychiatric …

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  Searching for the Ghosts of Joan Didion, Eve Babitz, and Old-Hollywood Glamour at the Chateau Marmont

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  You’d be hard-pressed to find a person (well, maybe besides Ryan Murphy) who loves a feud more than I do. To quote Marie Kondo, “I love mess,” and said mess is all the more intriguing to me when it involves two extremely wry and fabulous West Coats writers. Both Joan Didion (who worked for Vogue!) …

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  Beth Garrabrant’s New Photo Book Is a Subtly Stunning Meditation on American Teendom

  VOGUE.COM - By Emma Specter

  Photographer Beth Garrabrant has been behind Taylor Swift’s album photography since Folklore, tracking her evolution as an artist over the last four years. But Garrabrant’s latest project, a monograph titled Things Shouldn’t Be So Hard (Simon & Schuster), demonstrates her prowess telling the stories …

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  Are You More Joan Didion or Eve Babitz?

  VOGUE.COM - By Hannah Jackson

  In the “Literary It Girl” universe, there is no larger chasm than that between Joan Didion acolytes and Eve Babitz fanatics. Didion, who covered American countercultures with a raised eyebrow, feels a world away from Babitz’s chronicles of the bacchanal that was the Hollywood rock ’n’ roll scene in …