We’re away until January 3, but we’re reposting some of our favorite pieces from 2016. Enjoy your holiday!
An illustration of Salinger’s “A Perfect Day for Bananafish” by Jonny Ruzzo, 2013.
Why I borrowed a name from Salinger.
Ask someone who Seymour Glass is and they’ll tell you he’s a Salinger character: the eldest of the precocious Glass family, a misanthrope who shoots himself on vacation in “A Perfect Day for Bananafish.” But if that someone works in the New York fashion industry—specifically, in the editorial departments of select glossies—their response might be, Didn’t he used to work here?
That’s me they’re thinking of.
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