'For years, I heard 'Light On' as about love doomed by bad timing—a person asking, earnestly, What if there was a way for us to hold and care for one another, beyond the sometimes impossible confines of a traditional relationship?' Great Amanda Petrusich:
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Man, Maggie Rogers is a real one — generous, smart, funny, a little wild at heart. Loved spending the last couple months talking art, writing, love, service, time, contentment, fame & more with her. Online now & in this week’s issue!

Now that the show is over I can definitely say this is my favorite curb joke

this is beautiful.

about to 'did you just feel that earthquake' my way back into her life

Vampire Weekend's fifth album is 'a treatise on inheritance, decay, generational dissonance, and the delicate idea of choosing optimism over defeatist grousing,' writes Amanda Petrusich
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Vampire Weekend has never made a bad album, but its latest, “Only God Was Above Us,” is one of its best, Amanda Petrusich writes. nyer.cm/tqQEeTX

it's something of a struggle to juggle my main life aspiration (be cool and shut the fuck up) with my vocation ('writer')

ICYMI, watch our biography event 'Lou Reed: The King of New York - Will Hermes in Conversation with Amanda Petrusich' - now on YouTube! youtu.be/Y8zVTui-AlA Leon Levy Center for Biography Will Hermes Amanda Petrusich Kai Bird

Last night, Will Hermes, author of 'Lou Reed: The King of New York' & Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker staff writer, treated us to a fascinating conversation about Lou, the art of biography, and writing about rock icons. Video coming soon! (Photos: Paula Vlodkowsky)

Unmissable events...
Will Hermes and Amanda Petrusich talking Lou Reed at CUNY Grad Center for free next Weds 3/13.

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Jonah on pants is like McPhee on oranges: epic, beautiful, revelatory, insane

“Streaming is a convenient way to hear music, but it inevitably creates a gaping hole in your soul.”
True that, ⁦Amanda Petrusich⁩

You’d be nuts to miss these two brilliant & extremely beautiful people talking to each other

what could monday possibly mean to a cat with no job and endless lasagna.

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Noah Kahan, who was nominated for Best New Artist at the Grammys this year, is the rare figure who seems positioned to leverage viral success into something more like a traditional career, Amanda Petrusich writes. nyer.cm/dykXvH3

'Over time, discord about what defines country [music] has come to feel almost fundamental to the genre, which is now permanently at war with itself about what it considers true.'
--@AmandaPetrusich (2023)

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