Hello readers, how are you? Really, truly? Despite the Noah’s Ark-level flooding taking over New York City (hello tornado at Atlantic Beach??), we at Byline continue to persevere. Because in the subtle wrapping up of summer (it’s an endless state of mind, of course), something new emerges.
Seasons have existed since the dawn of human creation (editor’s note: I’m going to be honest here, and I did look up “when were seasons invented”). Seasons were not invented (duh!), but have been tracked since the Bronze Age. Do you think the Mesopotamians knew, when they started cataloging flood cycles one day to be known as “fall”, that it would coincide with a bustling back-to-school season? Do you think they could have predicted the smell of magazines wafting through Soho as September Issue after September Issue lands on the stands? Or do you think they thought it was a gentle start to a season of rest?
Over here, fall symbolizes the former. Sorority Rush season has begun. Fall schedules are announced. Fashion Week invitations are being sent out. Over here, fall means (in the wise words of Lady Gaga) no sleep, bus, club, another club, another club, plane, next place, next issue. But we won’t get into that yet. It’s still summer, after all.
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August Lamm announced the opening of Archaic House, a low-tech residency for artists and non-artists. It’s legit—“there will be no wifi available, and all digital devices (smartphones, laptops, tablets) will be locked safely away for the duration of the stay.” The deadline to apply is August 31.
A new Balenciaga campaign features brand ambassador Rachel Sennott doing a (checks notes) guided meditation. Namaste!
Amelia Dimoldenberg is the cover star and guest editor of Big Issue’s The Opportunity Issue. The content centers around “exploring how we can create more opportunities for the next generation.”
Literary journal The Georgia Review is making “CRITIC” booty shorts. In their words: “Finnish composer Jean Sibelius once said, ‘a statue has never been erected in honor of a critic,’ but at least now they have sassy shorts!”
Vogue’s canine-edition Dogue is back, with a slew of cover stars, including but not limited to: Bad Bunny’s beagle, Charles Mentlon’s Husky and Lena Dunham’s hairless dogs.
Speaking of her highness, Lena Dunham is co-writing the script for the upcoming Broadway adaptation of the 1999 film 10 Things I Hate About You (not to be confused with the 2008 Miley Cyrus hit “7 Things”).
And in high-ness news, everyone’s favorite weed girl Rachel Bell was profiled by The New Yorker. A must-read.
Two of New York’s GOATs, Martha Stewart and Karl Anthony Towns, grace the cover of Town&Country for their “America Duo” issue. The accompanying Q&A features them separately—which is disappointing. Why put two people on the same cover if you’re not going to put them in the same room??
Vanity Fair is back with another artist portrait cover, this time featuring Marc Jacobs by Anna Weyant. (Issy Wood depicted Charli xcx in 2025.) It is, objectively, a beautiful painting, but perhaps a rather flat depiction of the sparkling personality that is Mr. Jacobs.
Also in this issue of Vanity Fair is the most definitive profile of Line Sheet writer Lauren Sherman yet. “How Fashion Learned to Fear a Newsletter” reads the headline.
And in once-upon-a-Vanity Fair news, former Editor-in-Chief Radhika Jones has joined Columbia Journalism School’s faculty.
Michigan Quarterly Review is looking for submissions about basketball.
xoJane founder Jane Pratt is teaching a pitching class with Prose Playground this September. “Pitching is a skill,” reads the description. And it’s true! Coming in at $449 for an hour and a half, the price is steep…but how often can you guarantee your pitch landing in front of Jane Pratt? Probably not that often!
McNally Jackson Seaport has a jam-packed September. The Strand has just announced their fall season event schedule, too.
Kitchen Arts & Letters is having a semi-annual sale August 29-30. Expect: “steep discounts on lightly used and damaged books, priced $1, $2, $5, $10, or $20 with a few rarer finds priced slightly higher.”
Are you getting tired of people online? It might be because everyone on the internet has to be annoying. This essay on Substack summed it up pretty well.
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