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Wipe the fog off your Goggins Goggles and read this newsletter. —Alex Pappademas, culture editor |
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It’s Friday; the third-to-last weekend of the year is upon us, and boy do we have leisure-time recommendations for you. This week GQ editors and writers and friend-of-the-mag enthusiasts shared a Clairo-to-Columbo rundown of the best things they read, watched, and listened to as 2024 rained down upon them, including serial-killer manga, long-as-hell World War II audiobooks, The Real Housewives of New York, Mothra, “Sushi Glory Hole,” and the essays of Adolf Loos, a turn-of-the-century architect who wrote about tailoring and top-hat height like “the Menswear Guy of fin de siècle Vienna.”
Meanwhile: GQ’s Tap In columnist Frazier Tharpe adjusted his Chris Nolan Top 10 rankings after revisiting Interstellar in IMAX, but remained unconvinced that love transcends space and time. Esther Zuckerman met Brandon Wilson and Ethan Herisse to discuss their new film Nickel Boys, emoting into a first-person-POV camera rig, and awards-season red-carpet fits. Raymond Ang talked to Jimmy O. Yang about his Hulu series Interior Chinatown and interviewed some people who’ve become accustomed to catching curveball creative briefs from director Luca Guadagnino: Justin Kurtizkes, writer of Challengers and screenplay-adapter on Guadagnino’s new film Queer, and composers Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, whose Queer score is playing in the background as we type this and making the newsletter-writing process seem vaguely dangerous and wistfully surreal. Speaking of composers and typing, Ian Grant got out the jewels and binoculars to scrutinize what American poet turned X.com power user Bob Dylan (Renaldo & Clara, Dharma & Greg) is telling us via Tweet.
Abe Beame went to a Green Day show with Ken Carson in Atlanta and (we promise this is a rollicking and strange reported essay and not a Mad Libs-generated sentence) Evan McGarvey went to a convention for superfans of the Habsburg Empire in Plano, Texas. GQ’s Dan Riley did not go to the depths of the ocean to report his 2021 GQ profile of Alexey Molchanov, the world’s greatest freediver, but that story is now an epic documentary that you can stream on several of the finer platforms and Dan talked to GQ’s Gabriella Paiella about that. Colin Groundwater wrote about how HBO’s Dune: Prophecy might be laying the groundwork for Dune 3 but did not go to the planet Salusa Secundus in order to do so, because that is not a real place.
Lastly but by no means least-importantly, Walton Goggins launched an eyewear line called Goggins Goggles—which we assume you can wear while mogging, clogging, downward dogging, or just slogging along like a cog—and Jeremy Freed blogged Goggins’ flogging of Goggins Goggles. Your move, Kenny Loggins.
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The fuzziest sweaters, freakiest pants, buzziest accessories, and more—handpicked by GQ editors. |
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David Letterman as he sits with GQ’s Zach Baron at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, in Indiana, where Letterman grew up. |
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