in love lately with: youth

"She’s the kind of girl you remember as a teenager, from those early summers on the beach. The one you see emerging from the sea, tiny bikini tugged down just a little revealing the slimmest slice of a tan line, all curves and bounce, strings of long blonde hair stuck to bronzed cheeks. She’s the kind of girl you hoped you’d be like in a few years time – that unvarnished, innately sensual beauty who just didn’t have to try and didn’t seem to care."

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1. "We called her God because she wrote a poem about how Caleb Newton ejaculated prematurely the night she slept with him, and because she shared the poem with her friends." Benjamin Nugent for the Paris Review (x | via)
2. "Sleepwalking In The Rift" by Top 50 bachelor Cary Fukunaga
3. Issue No. 4 of Mirage Magazine
4. "Everything was wrong with you / so breaking up was easy to do," as Tavi over at Rookie said, Charli XCX's new album is full of songs for imagining being in the "TEEN MOVIE OF [YOUR] DREAMS".
5. Current read: Dare Me, by Megan Abbott
   "There's something dangerous about the boredom of teenage girls."
6. These two pieces of New Zealand cinema: Top of the Lake | In My Father's Den
7. Joni Mitchell for Saint Laurent (recommended read: Girl Liks Us) & Joan Didion for Céline
8. Tavi Gevinson at the Melbourne Writers Festival on fangirling
9. Psych rock's new rising, as captured by Hedi Slimane - his whole photography catalogue is just so wonderfully reminiscent of Joseph Szabo
10. "The pathological significance of clothes, the stylistic necessity of cigarettes, the heavy mascara, the convertibles, the longing, the blossoming sexuality, the confusion and time spent doing nothing." Cameron Krone in Mirage, Issue 2
11. Cardiac Arrest, by Bad Suns
12. "Looking through numerous portraits of youthful bodies coming to grips with their youthfulness, you become aware of something that after the age of young is no longer at your disposal. Its not as simplistic as terming it youth because it is more complex that that. What is at stake is the time on your hands that youth affords." Neira Zahirovic on Joseph Szabo

pieces of journalism part iv

Lauren Hutton and Robert Redford in Little Fauss and Big Halsy (1970)

What I enjoyed reading this week:

1. What Would Tracey Emin's Bed Look Like Today?, by Sophie Cullinane with lovely photographs by Sophie Davidson
2. Women in Old Films Who Look Like Now is a slideshow that's right up my alley
3. Tavi Gevinson's June Editor Letter for Rookie Magazine calling for action: "This month is about living in the moment in that way that only seems possible in the summer."
4. Patti Smith's introduction to the newly re-published Astragal, by Albertine Sarrazin: "Perhaps it is wrong to speak of oneself while writing of another, but I truly wonder if I would have become as I am without her. Would I have carried myself with the same swagger, or faced adversity with such feminine resolve, without Albertine as my guide? Would my young poems have possessed such a biting tongue without Astragal as my guidebook?"
5. Ryan McGinley: The Most Important Photographer in America, by Alice Gregory, who herself was featured in a lovely Waiting for Saturday post
6. In Praise of Selfies, by Casey N. Pep: "In the digital age, the rise of selfies parallels the rise of memoir and autobiography. Controlling one’s image has gone from unspoken desire to unapologetic profession, with everyone from your best friend to your favorite celebrity laboring to control every word, every pixel of himself or herself that enters the world. Self-portraiture is one aspect of a larger project to manage our reputations."
7. How Getting Rejected by the Cutest Boy in School Totally Changed My Life, by Carlye Wisel: "When you don't get the results you want, it feels like everyone can see through you, watching your failure radiate from your entire being."