Comments on: norbert blei | finding a novel in a newspaper

By: Jean Casey

Jean Casey — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 03:03:01 +0000

How very far we’ve come from the fig leaf!

By: David Dix sr

David Dix sr — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 23:31:30 +0000

Mr. Blei:

Precisely who we read the NY Times of every Sunday. The variety coverage, and in this example strung together, the Hearst girl’s high-end thread habit, and the Japanese guy with nothin’, and Verlyn KIlinkeborg’s RURAL LIFE watched for once a month as the sign-off entry on the editorial page – and this one touching on the threadbare jacket on his hook….

It is no wonder you (YOU!) strung these newspaper items together!

Thank you, sir!

And may the print NYT and VK live forever!

By: Barbara Vroman

Barbara Vroman — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 22:17:41 +0000

I thought, I can’t even imagine being this woman. What a strange life. Why would Norbert even read this? Then the more I read the replies the more I smiled and smiled at all the possibilities of why this would be printed, and why Norbert saw fit to expose the fragility of the piece with solemn, solid barn yard chic. Great fun. I wish everyone who wrote would send a letter to the editor of the
NYT.

By: delphine

delphine — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 21:30:18 +0000

Everything here a delight to read.

By: Karl Lagerfeld

Karl Lagerfeld — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 21:11:11 +0000

Hi Amanda, if yo read this please contact me asap. I’m a fashion designer, living in Paris ( not in a Hilton… if you know what I mean…) and I’m planning to create a new socks line which really should sucks!!! I mean the ones Japanese like to wear, the ones just with a separation for the big toe!!! Drop me a line please. A bientot?

By: Phil Hansotia

Phil Hansotia — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 19:54:06 +0000

The general population falls in a bell-shaped curve. This bit is about 2 Standaed deviations off the median on the petulance trivia end. This is the group that lives in the ‘wrapping’ and never tastes the real thing. They too are part of our lives–cause we can afford them! Phil Hansotia.

By: Robert M. Zoschke

Robert M. Zoschke — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 18:23:12 +0000

Amanda Hearst would be under doctor’s care would she ever read American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis. (Clearly she would be having nightmares that the main character in American Psycho had leaped from the novel’s pages to torment and finish her).

What a trifecta of babble…amazing the low depths of ephemera the NY Times will stoop to while trying to grasp at any and all straws to postpone bankruptcy.

By: Donald O'Donovan

Donald O'Donovan — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 17:58:59 +0000

I have to say that of the three “novelists,” Amanda Hearst is my favorite. This girl cranks it out! As we know, details are the life of it, and her use of specifics proves that conclusively. As I read through Amanda’s work last night I had the eerie feeling that she was putting me on, that “What I Wore” is a satire about the Beautiful People, but in retrospect I think she’s entirely serious. Needless to say, I cabbaged several paragraphs for future use. I mean, I can talk about this one’s Armani suit or that one’s Gucci socks, but never on my own could I come up with a gem like a “white batik-print Zara tulip skirt.” It would be interesting to see what some of the desperadoes in my neighborhood would think about this piece (those that can read English, I mean).

By: Mary Ann Crayton

Mary Ann Crayton — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 17:19:57 +0000

the sister bay resale shop has everything anyone would need, fashion wise or house wise.

By: Anne Emerson

Anne Emerson — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 16:45:31 +0000

Anyone know where I could put my hands on a pair of Lululemon leggings in the Egg Harbor/Fish Creek area? I’d sure like to have some before heading off to the Boom Boom Room in Carlsville this weekend. Thanks! Anne