The Baffler Vol 1, No 9

As we worked on this Baffler though the early months of 1997, it seemed obvious to us that the country was slowly coming around to the fact that lifestyle liberation wasn’t all it was cracked up to be. Not only had alternative’s street-cred somehow dribbed away, but even the most exalted lifestyle gurus were beginning to yawn distractedly. Take this excerpt from the New York Times, February 11:

“In June, pop culture addicts are going to see the definition of their favorite subject overturned when Details Magazine presents work, not leisure, as what defines young men today. ‘When we started the magazine we thought the young man enacted his rebel prose through rock music,’ said Joe Dolce, the editor. ‘I started asking myself a while ago, how is a man rebelling today? Oddly enough, I came up with the idea of work.’”

See ya on the barricades, Joe!

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