Elvis Presley’s rise from Tupelo poverty to international superstardom is a story often told in gold records and rhinestone jumpsuits. But just as iconic as his taste in tat were the cars he drove—most famously, the Cadillacs that came to symbolize his success, generosity, and flair for style. In the 1950s and 1960s, Cadillac wasContinue reading “Elvis Presley and His Cadillacs: Chrome, Dreams, and the King of the Open Road”
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The Companion Who Lives in Your Head: Imaginary Friends, Spirit Guides, and the Inner Life of the Boy
An Essay on Reading Great Are the Myths “What if you’re my imaginary friend?” The boy asks this near the very end. They are lying side by side on sun loungers in the California desert, covered in blankets, the way they used to lie in the garden in Memphis when they were thirteen and fourteenContinue reading “The Companion Who Lives in Your Head: Imaginary Friends, Spirit Guides, and the Inner Life of the Boy”
The Two Alfreds: Eisenstaedt and Wertheimer
In the vast history of twentieth-century photography, two Alfreds stand out for the way they captured the essence of their time: Alfred Eisenstaedt, the German-born émigré whose elegant eye helped define Life magazine’s golden era, and Alfred Wertheimer, the Brooklyn-based photographer whose intimate portraits of a young Elvis Presley gave the world its first candidContinue reading “The Two Alfreds: Eisenstaedt and Wertheimer”
Elvis Never Left the Building!
This may seem a little kitsch, but we love Elvis Presley at MWOI HQ!
-It was not always that way, I can assure you. I grew up in a household where Elvis was frowned upon as very much not the sort of cultural icon we, as intellectually minded high class individuals, embraced.
My World of Interiors 