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I am writing a book on glamour, understood not as a particular style but as an imaginative process that takes many different forms, depending on the context. The Free Press, which also published The Future and Its Enemies, will be publishing the book, most likely in 2010.
ARTICLES ON GLAMOUR
Up, Up, and Away
Today, air travel is just another form of mass transit. Is there any going back to the glamorous days of yore?
The Atlantic Monthly, January/February 2007
The Iconographer
In Julius Shulman's photographs, modern architecture became seductive, comfortable, and immortal
The Atlantic Monthly, November 2006
Superhero Worship
Once the province of Garbo and Astaire, movie glamour now comes from Superman, Spider-Man, and Storm.
The Atlantic Monthly, October 2006
Gadgets and Glamour: Let's Make Some Magic, With No Strings Attached
The New York Times, May 4, 2005
Old Hollywood Glamour--And the Man Who Invented It
A slide-show essay on George Hurrell
Slate, February 25, 2005
High In the Sunlit Silence
The enduring glamour of aviation
Reason Online, December 22, 2004
The Gilded Age
Excerpt from essay in Glamour: Fashion, Industrial Design, Architecture
T: The New York Times Style Magazine, October 10, 2004
SPEECHES ON GLAMOUR
TED 2004, "The Power of Glamour," audience member's notes here.
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