Kyle Thomas Hemingway: The ephemera edit

An ongoing digital archive of 1,364 items (and counting) proving that I read, I saw, and I actually paid attention.

Collection

Biography

  • The Grand Affair: John Singer Sargent in His World

    by Paul Fisher

    “A portrait is a picture with something wrong with the mouth.”

  • Quant by Quant: The Autobiography of Mary Quant

    by Mary Quant

    “One of the things I’ve learned is never to hoard ideas, because either they are not so relevant or they’ve gone stale. Whatever it is, pour it out.”

  • Kiki Man Ray: Art, Love, and Rivalry in 1920s Paris

    by Mark Braude

    “Kiki’s never sure if she’ll perform, until she does. Sometimes she’s not in the mood, says she’s too drunk. It’s different now that people come here to watch her, now that she stands in front instead of among them. They clang their cutlery and chant her name until she takes her place in the light and starts her slow-motion dance, no distance to lend her mystery, no stage to make her majestic, everyone sharing the same heat and smelling the same sweat.”

  • Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh

    by John Lahr

    “There are only two times in this world when I am happy and selfless and pure,” he said. “One is when I jack off on paper and the other when I empty all the fretfulness of desire on a young male body.”

  • Serious Pleasures: The Life of Stephen Tennant

    by Philip Hoare

    “Well, some men, I think, do want to look pretty. And nicer still, beautiful!”