Articles Written By Leah Finnegan
TMN Editor Leah Finnegan is from Illinois by way of Texas. She splits her time between New York City and her website.
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Portraits by Other Means
Pity the Progeny
Alina Fernandez Both [Fidel] Castro and Fernandez’ mother, a socialite, were married to other people when they fell in love through their exchange of letters while Castro was in...
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Portraits by Other Means
Don’t Look at Me (Look at Me)
Marcel Proust By 1919, Proust rarely left his soundproofed Paris apartment, complete with a bedroom encased in walls of cork to keep out noise. He worked in a sunless writing studio...
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Portraits by Other Means
Comeback Kings and Queens
Sinead O’Connor Outside Sinead O’Connor’s whitewashed home here, on a windswept beachfront overlooking the misty Irish Sea, there are two talismans. One, a knee-high...
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Portraits by Other Means
Till Death Do Us Part
Marcus Garvey Garvey had a stroke in January of 1940, and he becomes incapacitated. George Padmore, who was a columnist for The Chicago Defender, had heard a rumor that Garvey had...
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Portraits by Other Means
Our Domiciles, Ourselves
Pope Benedict XVI Until 2005, under John Paul II, the papal apartment was run by Polish nuns. The memores aren’t nuns, do not wear religious garments, are laypeople and...
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Just the Same as You and I
Shorty
When you were a toddler, doctors told your parents you had a “failure to thrive.” Which means: You’re small, and you’re going to be short. Later, when medication helps you grow faster than you’ve ever grown before, the hardest part may be deciding when to stop.
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Portraits by Other Means
Feel the Burn
Jimmy Carter It is the kind of scene that happens every weekend all over the country, but this one is by now part of presidential history—the middle-aged runner...
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Portraits by Other Means
The Things They Married
Woody Allen and Mia Farrow* (not married) Then in April 1979, [Farrow] noticed a picture of Allen on the cover of this magazine. He had on a scruffy sweater and was...
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Portraits by Other Means
Hobby Lobby
Dalai Lama, His Holiness of Tibet Until early 1960, I had some interest in photography, but not since then. Of course, I still love different flowers. And occasionally I do some...
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Portraits by Other Means
Best Friends
Sheryl Crow and Bob Dylan “I called [Bob Dylan]…I said, ‘I am totally wigged out and I don’t know what I’m supposed...
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Portraits by Other Means
Our Previous Careers
Maybe you’ll work on a railroad and then become a famous writer. Or maybe you’ll be a prostitute and then create a TV show. Or maybe...
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Portraits by Other Means
Tattoo You and Me
My friend, however, was unimpressed. “It’s 2011. Everyone has tattoos,” he said. He’s right, I realized, and now I will forever have this little feather...