{"id":106222,"date":"2016-12-28T15:00:44","date_gmt":"2016-12-28T20:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=106222"},"modified":"2016-12-27T11:25:04","modified_gmt":"2016-12-27T16:25:04","slug":"being-seymour-glass-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/28\/being-seymour-glass-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Being Seymour Glass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>We\u2019re away until January 3, but we\u2019re reposting some of our favorite pieces from 2016. Enjoy your holiday!<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_101616\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/cb364d10857411.560ec718e44a1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-101616\" class=\"wp-image-101616\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/cb364d10857411.560ec718e44a1.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"850\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/cb364d10857411.560ec718e44a1.jpg 706w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/cb364d10857411.560ec718e44a1-212x300.jpg 212w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-101616\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An illustration of Salinger\u2019s \u201cA Perfect Day for Bananafish\u201d by Jonny Ruzzo, 2013.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>Why I borrowed a name from Salinger.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ask someone who Seymour Glass is and they\u2019ll tell you he\u2019s a Salinger character: the eldest of the precocious Glass family, a misanthrope who shoots himself on vacation in \u201cA Perfect Day for Bananafish.\u201d\u00a0But if that someone works in the New York fashion industry\u2014specifically, in the editorial departments of select glossies\u2014their response might be, Didn\u2019t he used to work here?<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s me they\u2019re thinking of.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/08\/17\/being-seymour-glass\/\">Read More &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why I borrowed a name from Salinger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1036,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26379],"tags":[23983,23984,23986,23985,566,23981,513,3543,538,6298,8952,19770,910,269,13474,125,909,7578,23989,22031,20269,3436,23982],"class_list":["post-106222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-of-2016","tag-a-perfect-day-for-bananafish","tag-an-innocent-fashion","tag-andreja-pejiic","tag-corporate-life","tag-cuba","tag-deception","tag-depression","tag-dress","tag-fashion","tag-fashion-week","tag-identity","tag-internships","tag-j-d-salinger","tag-magazines","tag-miami","tag-new-york-city","tag-nine-stories","tag-pseudonyms","tag-r-j-hernandez","tag-seymour-glass","tag-spectacle","tag-upper-east-side","tag-whiteness"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Being Seymour Glass: Why I Borrowed a Name from Salinger<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"R. 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