Who is James Wolcott
James Wolcott (born December 10, 1952) is an American journalist, known for his critique of contemporary media. Wolcott is the cultural critic for Vanity Fair and contributes to The New Yorker. He had his own blog on Vanity Fair magazine's main site which was awarded a Webby Award in 2007.Background and education
Wolcott was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and raised in a suburban setting. He attended Maryland's Frostburg State College for two years. From there, he moved to New York City, to work at The Village Voice, first in the circulation department answering phone complaints, then as a receptionist. He is married to Laura Jacobs, a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. He began practicing the Transcendental Meditation technique in 2007.
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- High expectations weren't nurtured in my neck of nowhere back then - children weren't fawned over from an early age as 'gifted' and groomed for a prizewinning future self-esteem was considered something you had to pick from the garden yourself.
- Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.
- After a decade this glum, we deserved a shot of 'Glee,' a show that restored our faith in the power of song, the beauty of dance, and the magic of 'spirit fingers' to chase our cares and woes into somebody else's backyard.
- Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.
- Used to be, conservatives revered the Average American, that Norman Rockwell oil painting of diner food, humble faith, honest toil, and Capraesque virtue.
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Jclickbaited: james wolcott · rudy then and rudy now · lrb 16 february 2023Flannsplainer: highly entertaining. rudy then and rudy now
Seschmidt20: rudy then and rudy now
D_khunne: i was thinking about 1900 because of the tarantino news. james wolcott writing in his autobiography about seeing 1900 with pauline kael and leaning over to her and saying something like, if sutherland kills that cat, i’m outta here.
Justinmcguirk: "of all of the patsies in the trump orbit, none has squandered as much moral and reputational capital as giuliani and secured for himself such a skanky place in history." [this piece is so much fun]
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