Photographer Arthur Elgort talking with his daughter, Sarah Elgort, for Interview Magazine, April 18, 2025.
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Stolen Words / Walking backwards into forever
“Every life – and every tragic death is full of ‘what -ifs.’ I’ve been over Jeff’s death thousands of times in my mind, wondering if we could have – should have – done anything differently. Of course we could have, but none of us could have predicted the one last risky, no-parachute move Jeff made that day, walking backward into forever, his mind full of music as if he were in the long grass in front of his new house. Jeff swam farther toward Mud Island, singing along to Led Zeppelin’s Whole Lotta Love, his voice reflecting off the monorail bridge as he swam under it.”
– Words from Dave Lory, former manager of the late singer Jeff Buckley (1966 – 1997)
Stolen Words / Posting through the thirst trap
“The cruel reality is that maybe improving my physical appearance is just as fundamental to my success as developing my art practice itself. It’s also frustrating to feel myself internalising this idea that I have to get sexier and show ass online if I want to play the game.” – Dylan, painter, New York
Stolen Words / We are living in the world of entitlement
Stolen Words / Beauty is the purest feeling of the soul
“I only glanced fleetingly at him as I passed, I did not really see him. But that uncertain glimpse was sufficient to stir my imagination, and I received and took away with me a vision of beauty… ah, of what beauty.”
Extracted and adapted from Tristan, a 1903 novella by German writer Thomas Mann.
Stolen Words / Mary and George
“Won’t King Sausage cut your head off if you dip it in another pig?”
– Mary and George / Sky Studios / 2024
Stolen Words / The present was only a duplicate of the past
I bought a book for £6.99 that was only thirty-five pages long. It was so short that I read it in a hot bath in only ten minutes. But I liked the cover, and what I read resonated with me.
Things like:
“I was aware that this entailed a kind of cruelty towards this younger man who was doing things for the first time. Invariably when he spoke of his plans for a future with me, I replied, ‘The present is enough,’ never mentioning that for me the present was only a duplicate of the past.”
and,
“The people he greeted on the street were always young, often other students. When he stopped to talk, I stood aside; they watched me sidelong. He tore me away from my generation, but I was not part of his.”
The Young Man / Annie Ernaux / 2022
Jordan Firstman, American writer, producer, and comedian, in a Zoom conversation with Robert Pattinson.
Stolen Words / The art of reading slowly
An editor’s note co-written with Walter Kirn, editor-at-large, of the County Highway that has gone back in time by launching a print-only broadsheet that is available in book and record shops across the US and Canada.
Perfectly Hard and Glamorous 