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Sherman McCoy's avatar

Appreciate you delving into Tom Wolfe’s oeuvre a bit!

I read some of his novels in high school before coincidentally attending his undergraduate alma mater - Washington & Lee - where I took a course that necessitated reading everything he published, including hard-to-find (at the time) magazine articles.

In addition to the pieces referenced above, I recommend The Painted Word and From Bauhaus to Our House, skewerings of modern art and modern architecture, respectively.

Perhaps the most amusing - and yet profoundly insightful - book on status and class that I have read is Paul Fussell’s Class. The central theme of the book is that while one could perhaps advance a rung up the ladder by having internalized some of the lessons contained within, the personal insecurity demonstrated through doing so would drop the striver back down where they began.

Finally, the Dior scandal is hardly the first PR hit that LVMH has taken this year; witness the Bloomberg Businessweek article that illustrated that Loro Piana’s beloved vicuña chaperones are rewarded with essentially none of the $5,000+ that a Loro Piana vicuña sweater commands at retail.

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Paddy Dane's avatar

Really enjoyed the literary journey this week, I love lamp.

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