Passing Fancies ~ September 2026 recap

September is. . . back-to-school season? Well, not actual school, perhaps—but I felt like I learned a few things over the past few weeks anyway. Reading: I just finished Cat Marnell’s How to Murder Your Life, which came out in 2017; I didn’t think I was interested in this book (although I remember Cat’s writing in Lucky magazine) until my Instagram buddy Summer recently posted a bunch of screen caps of specific perfume mentions that appear throughout its pages. That lured me in, and I really did enjoy the memoir: it’s unexpectedly funny, despite its often-dark subject matter. It also made me realize that my own addiction, for print magazines, has left me in a permanent state of withdrawal. Art: A selection of Andy Warhol’s Polaroids at the Whitney. Yves Saint Laurent and Photography at the International Center of Photography. Modernity and Opulence: Women of the Wiener Werkstätte at the Jewish Museum. Video: Letty Lynton at the Paris and Unzipped at Film Forum, both with A. White…