Word: hipsterism
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...crying and start laughing again? Jonathan Safran Foer's first novel, Everything Is Illuminated (Houghton Mifflin; 276 pages), is a very funny book about very tragic times, and it's just a little bit nervous about being so funny. After one comic aside, the narrator--a Ukrainian would-be hipster (and remedial English student) named Alexander Perchov--feels as if he has to reassure his audience: "It was not wrong to make a funny here. It was the right thing...
Cambridge, 1 seems to already be attracting a loyal following of yuppyish twenty-somethings, aging hipster Cantabrigians and adventurous Harvard students, some of whom are not pleased that their secret will soon be out. The dining room is larger that it first appears, since the old Young and Yee kitchen is now on the side and opened up, a move that allows for a nice set of tables and windows at the back and provides a fresh dose of Western transparency to the cooking process. A smallish bar and row of stools for window seating add extra choices for quick...
...chilly Tuesday afternoon, several dozen visitors to the Harvard Square Newbury Comics store are still with anticipation. One aging hipster perfunctorily thumbs through a few albums, but his attention keeps drifting toward the corner of the store, where an acoustic guitar rests beside a pink amplifier...
...from his work. But, as is not the case with Chanel perfume or Rolex watches, few people care whether their slipcovered sofa is an authentic Mitchell Gold or a knockoff, and that could hurt him. Nonetheless, there's no arguing with his influence: he is everywhere. Walk into any hipster apartment from New York City to Nashville, Tenn., and you will see his work, or at least his influence. "I do think about not letting stuff get too pedestrian," Gold says. "I was in London a few months ago, and I saw all this furniture being unloaded into a flat...
Vegas is also the perfect place for Hickey, who has taught at the University of Nevada since 1992. It's a freebooting and democratic city where people with funny resumes fit right in. Whatever else he is--lucid hipster, tenured iconoclast and barbarian at the gates of art-world convention--Hickey, 62, is the only American art critic of consequence who used to play guitar for a country-and-western band. He is also proof that MacArthur Foundation "genius grants," like the one he was awarded this year, go to some shaggy characters, the kind who like low-rider cars...