Last week I shot the brilliant @jodikantor for @guardian . Everyone should read her new book “How to Start” - she’s a genius.
Thanks @sarahgilbertguardian for the call.
While I can’t pretend I understand what it is that he does for a living, it was a pleasure to meet and shoot Siegfried Eggert of the ”blanking firm” Grizzly Research for @svdnaringsliv
Thanks @neideman for the call!
The gods of Fifth Avenue
As president and pope face off, @mmegannolan goes on a pilgrimage between Trump Tower and St Patrick’s Cathedral
'In St Patrick’s Cathedral on Fifth Avenue, a five-minute walk from Trump Tower, a responsorial psalm rings out: “The Lord Hears the Cry of the Poor,” Father Enrique Salvo intones, and we repeat it back faithfully. I am at midday mass at St Patrick’s, the seat of the archbishop, which has occupied its block since the 1870s. Back then, its location was criticised as being too far out of town. Now it stands at the heart of New York’s most crassly consumerist territory, near the ludicrous 15-storey Louis Vuitton bag installation, surrounded by luxury retailers guarded by doormen and patronised by extremely wealthy tourists.
'Before this mass, I had stepped into Trump Tower, a couple of blocks away, for the first time. It’s both less and more grotesque than I might have hoped. I ride up the golden elevator and laugh to see a group of teenage boys posturing while getting their picture taken by mom and dad, middle fingers up and mouths protruding in would-be ominous pouts of disaffection.
'In St Patrick’s, the response about the cry of the poor strikes more keenly because of where I have come from. Just as I am enjoying this smug little observation of mine, however, I register the magnificent altar I am staring at and think: “Hang on, I seem to remember another corrupt body you could always critique for its love of bejewelled decadence.”
'I realise this is where we find ourselves – and I resent it. Donald Trump’s attacks on Pope Leo last week were so deranged that I and many others have become reflexively defensive of the church. It’s a suddenly jarring experience when my whole life has been lived in awareness of the Roman Catholic church as a totalitarian force that wounds.'
Read the full piece in tomorrow's paper, and online now - link in bio
✍️ @mmegannolan
📸 @mspann
Indian writer Amitav Ghosh for The Observer. His new novel, Ghost-Eye, explores the environmental crisis through a character who recalls a past life�. Interview by Jeevan Vasagar.
‘It’s just a terrible time to be anywhere in the US’ says novelist @jaymcinerney
Ahead of his latest book, McInerney talks Trump parlour games, writing about his former flames, and how a brain injury helped him finish his new novel
Jay McInerney, 71, was born in Connecticut and lives in New York. His books include his debut novel, Bright Lights, Big City (1984), about a cocaine-addicted fact-checker, and A Hedonist in the Cellar (2006), a collection of essays on wine. His new novel, See You on the Other Side, completes a quartet about Manhattan power couple Russell and Corrine Calloway, first seen in Brightness Falls (1992).
Read his full interview on our website - link in bio
✍️ Anthony Cummins
📸 @mspann
See You on the Other Side is published on 14 April by bloomsburypublishing (£20). Order a copy from The Observer Shop for £18
Patrick Radden Keefe for The Guardian on his new book London Falling.
A gangster, a bogus inheritance and a dead 19-year-old: the mystery Patrick Radden Keefe couldn’t ignore.
Words by Anna Moore
Dr Siddhartha Mukherjee, the Pulitzer �prize-winning writer of “The Emperor of All Maladies” for @obsnewreview
Brilliant article in this Sunday’s paper by @chrisjohnpower
Thanks @cherylnewman1
Some pics from when @mmegannolan interviewed the authors of “Attensity! A Manifesto of the Attention Liberation Movement” and attended an “attention lab” at the @schoolofattention for @obsnewreview
