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Crying: It’s really good for you, but sometimes a person needs a little help to get the tear ducts going. Of course, you can always just look at Madison County bridges , But there is something elegant and old – a world moved to tears by a book is lovely. Below, find eight
Vogue employees on the books, both in grief Or happiness, or just being surprised by a perfectly put together sentence.
Little Life
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This715 – Honestly, the page book can speak for itself. – Carolina Dalia Gonzalez, Executive Assistant to the Editor-in-Chief
I Edith Wharton’s Age of Innocence
The Age of Innocence
Specifically, the book’s ending never fails to make me cry. Sometimes, if I want to force myself into that nostalgic, lovelorn state of mind that goes well with fall, I read the last few chapters. I won’t spoil the ending, but the rest of the book is also a canon for a reason. Gilded Age high-society man Newland Archer is engaged to the innocent and lovable May Welland. Newland is torn between the two women when May’s cousin Alan Olenska returns to New York following a breakdown in their marriage in Europe. Aside from the absolutely perfect ending, there’s a lot of misrepresentation of the plutocrats. —Sarah Spellings, Fashion News Editor
Love Nicole Krause
Love History
Nicole Krause
Love History
Love History
The book that made me cry is, without a doubt, Nicole Krause’s story of his love. Even revisiting the synopsis at the beginning makes me sting: an old man bangs his radiator to let his neighbors know about him Still alive – besides he’s not just a lonely old urchin, he’s the author of a book that chronicles a great love that will travel across the world and into the lives of many. Some books you recall more for the feel of reading them than for the plot, and this is one of those books for me. I read it, cried, then turned around and read it again. Works every time. —Chloe Schama, Senior Editor
Dalloway , Virginia Woolf
Mrs. Dalloway
The first – and the only book so far – that made me cry was… lady. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf? Is this lame? I’m a junior and
went through it
like someone in college As often, the last moments of that story (the final lines!) formed a lump in my throat that nearly took my breath away. “It’s Clarissa, he said. Because she’s there”…still my heart (and my tears). —Marley Marius, Feature Editor
Lolita Vladimir Nabokov
Lolita
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I’m not a crybaby, but Lolita fascinates me every time – especially at the end of this poignant, charming, gorgeous, morally tragic novel. Lolita has many things: provocation, helpless portraits, bribery, crime, and , yes, undeniable, obliterating love. And the love tide at the end of the book, when Humbert Humbert loses Lolita but still longs for her and tries to convince her (pregnant, married, ) Running away with him one more time is overwhelming. “Lolita…I have to say. Life is short. It’s twenty, twenty-five steps from here to that old car you’re familiar with. It’s a short walk. Finish those twenty-five One step. Now. Right now. Come like you. Then we’ll live happily ever after.” It was her answer that gave me the chills. Sad, generous, absolute four words. “No,” she said. “No, dear, no.” – Taylor Antrim, Head of Global Networks and Associate Editor-in-Chief, U.S.
Tim: The Official Biography of Avicii by Måns Mosesson and I Love Hate Fashion by Loïc Prigent
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As the masks of tragedy and comedy on behalf of theatre remind us that tears come in many varieties. Don’t try a heartbreaking read, i.e. Tim: The Official Biography of Avicii by Måns Mosesson does not have a box of tissues. When I closed the book, the pages were soaked through. A few weeks later, I’m watering the pages of Loïc Prigent’s collection of wicked quotes collected at the fashion show — I love hate fashion – This is a funny reminder of the importance of keeping the right perspective. —Laird Borrelli-Persson, Senior Archives Editor
Joan Didion
The Year of Magical Thinking
The Year of Magical Thinking
I found the most amazing The ab out of Didion’s 530 Memoirs — about the death of her husband and longtime creative collaborator, John Gregory Dunne, in which she is both subject and observer. As she documented that event and its aftermath, while Didion was also caring for her sick daughter, Quintanaro, she created a kind of grief manual that I have returned to in lost moments of my life. – Jessie Heyman, executive editor of vogue.com
The Great Believer of Rebecca Makkai
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I don’t usually do it in books (or movies or TV) crying on the show, unless I was going through the first few weeks of the pandemic, which I learned helped me turn on the waterworks). However, when I read Makkai’s work of historical fiction, young gay men are in 496s, I cried a lot. There was a special mention of a young man thinking about things he would miss when he was alive, which included “a dog he could walk by the lake” and when I first read it, I was overwhelmed , almost sick with grief thinking about those who lost their lives and futures to disease and government inaction. – Emma Spector, Culture Writer
, Virginia Woolf
Mrs. Dalloway
The first – and the only book so far – that made me cry was… lady. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf? Is this lame? I’m a junior and
went through it
like someone in college As often, the last moments of that story (the final lines!) formed a lump in my throat that nearly took my breath away. “It’s Clarissa, he said. Because she’s there”…still my heart (and my tears). —Marley Marius, Feature Editor
Lolita Vladimir Nabokov
Lolita
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I’m not a crybaby, but Lolita fascinates me every time – especially at the end of this poignant, charming, gorgeous, morally tragic novel. Lolita has many things: provocation, helpless portraits, bribery, crime, and , yes, undeniable, obliterating love. And the love tide at the end of the book, when Humbert Humbert loses Lolita but still longs for her and tries to convince her (pregnant, married, ) Running away with him one more time is overwhelming. “Lolita…I have to say. Life is short. It’s twenty, twenty-five steps from here to that old car you’re familiar with. It’s a short walk. Finish those twenty-five One step. Now. Right now. Come like you. Then we’ll live happily ever after.” It was her answer that gave me the chills. Sad, generous, absolute four words. “No,” she said. “No, dear, no.” – Taylor Antrim, Head of Global Networks and Associate Editor-in-Chief, U.S.
Tim: The Official Biography of Avicii by Måns Mosesson and I Love Hate Fashion by Loïc Prigent
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Tim: Avicii Official Biography
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Bookstore
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As the masks of tragedy and comedy on behalf of theatre remind us that tears come in many varieties. Don’t try a heartbreaking read, i.e. Tim: The Official Biography of Avicii by Måns Mosesson does not have a box of tissues. When I closed the book, the pages were soaked through. A few weeks later, I’m watering the pages of Loïc Prigent’s collection of wicked quotes collected at the fashion show — I love hate fashion – This is a funny reminder of the importance of keeping the right perspective. —Laird Borrelli-Persson, Senior Archives Editor
Joan Didion
The Year of Magical Thinking
The Year of Magical Thinking
I found the most amazing The ab out of Didion’s 530 Memoirs — about the death of her husband and longtime creative collaborator, John Gregory Dunne, in which she is both subject and observer. As she documented that event and its aftermath, while Didion was also caring for her sick daughter, Quintanaro, she created a kind of grief manual that I have returned to in lost moments of my life. – Jessie Heyman, executive editor of vogue.com
The Great Believer of Rebecca Makkai
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bookstore
Go shopping now
I don’t usually do it in books (or movies or TV) crying on the show, unless I was going through the first few weeks of the pandemic, which I learned helped me turn on the waterworks). However, when I read Makkai’s work of historical fiction, young gay men are in 496s, I cried a lot. There was a special mention of a young man thinking about things he would miss when he was alive, which included “a dog he could walk by the lake” and when I first read it, I was overwhelmed , almost sick with grief thinking about those who lost their lives and futures to disease and government inaction. – Emma Spector, Culture Writer
Lolita
I’m not a crybaby, but Lolita fascinates me every time – especially at the end of this poignant, charming, gorgeous, morally tragic novel. Lolita has many things: provocation, helpless portraits, bribery, crime, and , yes, undeniable, obliterating love. And the love tide at the end of the book, when Humbert Humbert loses Lolita but still longs for her and tries to convince her (pregnant, married, ) Running away with him one more time is overwhelming. “Lolita…I have to say. Life is short. It’s twenty, twenty-five steps from here to that old car you’re familiar with. It’s a short walk. Finish those twenty-five One step. Now. Right now. Come like you. Then we’ll live happily ever after.” It was her answer that gave me the chills. Sad, generous, absolute four words. “No,” she said. “No, dear, no.” – Taylor Antrim, Head of Global Networks and Associate Editor-in-Chief, U.S.
Tim: The Official Biography of Avicii by Måns Mosesson and I Love Hate Fashion by Loïc Prigent
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Tim: Avicii Official Biography
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Bookstore
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Tim: Avicii Official Biography
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Bookstore
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Tim: Avicii Official Biography
$
Bookstore
NOW SHOPPING
As the masks of tragedy and comedy on behalf of theatre remind us that tears come in many varieties. Don’t try a heartbreaking read, i.e. Tim: The Official Biography of Avicii by Måns Mosesson does not have a box of tissues. When I closed the book, the pages were soaked through. A few weeks later, I’m watering the pages of Loïc Prigent’s collection of wicked quotes collected at the fashion show — I love hate fashion – This is a funny reminder of the importance of keeping the right perspective. —Laird Borrelli-Persson, Senior Archives Editor
Joan Didion
The Year of Magical Thinking
I found the most amazing The ab out of Didion’s 530 Memoirs — about the death of her husband and longtime creative collaborator, John Gregory Dunne, in which she is both subject and observer. As she documented that event and its aftermath, while Didion was also caring for her sick daughter, Quintanaro, she created a kind of grief manual that I have returned to in lost moments of my life. – Jessie Heyman, executive editor of vogue.com
The Great Believer of Rebecca Makkai
Go shopping now
I don’t usually do it in books (or movies or TV) crying on the show, unless I was going through the first few weeks of the pandemic, which I learned helped me turn on the waterworks). However, when I read Makkai’s work of historical fiction, young gay men are in 496s, I cried a lot. There was a special mention of a young man thinking about things he would miss when he was alive, which included “a dog he could walk by the lake” and when I first read it, I was overwhelmed , almost sick with grief thinking about those who lost their lives and futures to disease and government inaction. – Emma Spector, Culture Writer
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