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Lake Micah

Manhattan
As seen in: Harper's Magazine, Substack, Frieze, CR Fashion Book, The New Inquiry, Bookforum, Metrograph, 4Columns
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At Home With...August Picks

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By Lake Micah
| Metrograph
Bruce Hainley selects Itinerary of Jean Bricard Itinerary of Jean Bricard, dir.
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Of Eve Babitz

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By Lake Micah
| Substack
Eve Babitz removed the seal of taboo from a closed system of customary proceedings—endangered the hoax of its integrity—and this made of her a kind of Pandora figure. Peeling off from the veneer of spectacle its guise of significance, denaturing our reality, she retarded equilibrium in favor of a brand of benign, sybaritic entropy. The effect was general. Around Babitz men and women assume their true forms, unveil their true essences in the span of a single gesture, quip, antic, defect, quirk.
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Of Joan Didion

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By Lake Micah
| Substack
Joan Didion was an answer to the recession of an intellectual poise from our lives. We had had few others. Polish, exactitude, remove: of these she made an uneasy, influential atelier. Novelty and anomaly, too, were at her disposal, never far off, right there in her kit. From early she would perfect them, tune the pitch, the keen and cant, of her voice. She would invent a new American tone, contained inside of which—in the grain and in the groan—would be all the history of the stolen frontier.
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