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...matchy-matchy harmonies are blissfully paired with jangling rhythms and mumbled chords.To say that POBPAH’s music is derived from Twee—that dainty, sweet style that emerged from mid-80s England, then-described by music critic Simon Reynolds as “a revolt into childhood??—would be an understatement. While the Twee sound longs for a greater, happier future, it is ever-wistful for lazy summers and bubblegum popsicles. POBPAH similarly builds upon the output of Shoegaze bands of the same period, marked by a distorted, almost atmospheric guitar sound.Pegging...
...this is the place. This place is very special...When I was painting the Harvard boathouse this summer, which I did from contemporary photographs, they were distilled by my memories and feelings at Harvard.” “Iconography of Harvard is an aspect of his own childhood??a part of his emotional life,” Wronoski says. “Harvard is one of those lampposts in his memory that illuminates a large swath of his experience...It’s like an ongoing travel log. He is reporting not from places, necessarily...
...Although English was his third language—he picked up French and Spanish early in his continent-hopping cosmopolitan childhood??he was renowned for his erudite, highly refined, and idiosyncratic prose, often ridiculed by detractors as “sesquipedalian.” The son of an oil-baron millionaire, he attended posh private schools in Paris, London, and New York, and graduated from Yale a talented and ambitious young writer...
...long string of elaborate and unlikely meals I’ve indulged in these last three weeks: despite the occasional visit to the library, I’ve done nothing this summer in New York—the city I’ve longed to explore since childhood??except shop for food, cook...
...theory of when childhood ends—or really, when theirs ended. Puberty? Columbine? 9/11? But whatever the endpoint, hardly anyone disputes the premise: There is childhood, and then it’s over. The ending is generally seen as a premature and inauspicious development.The tragedy of childhood??s end is at the crux of “Ant Farm: And Other Desperate Situations,” the debut collection of comedic shorts by Simon Rich ’06–’07. From the second-grader who realizes that the Silent Game...