Book Talk: Do Something

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Join Guy Trebay in conversation with Rachel Syme at the Bookstore!

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Guy Trebay (Featured Writer)Guy Trebay has chronicled culture, high and low, since the 1970s, writing for The New Yorker, The Village Voice, Interview, Esquire, Artforum, and many other publications. For the past two decades, he has been a style reporter and critic for The New York Times. Among his professional recognitions, Trebay has twice been the recipient of the Meyer “Mike” Berger Award from Columbia University. His work is widely anthologized, and he is the author of In the Place to Be: Guy Trebay’s New York. He lives in New York. Rachel Syme, Writer (Moderator)Rachel Syme, a staff writer at the New Yorker, has covered Hollywood, theatre, fashion, television, style, music and other cultural subjects for the magazine since 2012. Her cultural criticism and reported features—which focus primarily on the intersections of women’s lives, artistic production, history, and fame—have also appeared in the Times Magazine, GQ, New York, Vogue, Rolling Stone, and Vanity Fair, among other publications. Syme is currently writing an upcoming book of essays for Knopf, and also a coffee-table book about the joys of handwritten correspondence for Clarkson Potter, which will be out in early 2025.

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