What Spaniards wear
How to treat Paris like it’s Los Angeles
Complain about the “commute” between the rive gauche and the rive droite
Scope out coffee shops and, since they’re all good, only the enter the ones where everyone is under 40 and well dressed
Go to magazine stores and pretend to care about any of the magazines without celebrities, maybe buy one and ignore
... See moreI think of her often. She happens to hit on a particular fixation of mine, which is the problem of “taste” as an ever-present commodity, rather than something idiosyncratic, personal, and most importantly, connected to other aspects of your day-to-day life, like how you move around the world and what you do to pass the time. I think of people whose... See more