Unhappy Hipsters

“Both her artistic and her social ambitions were forever thwarted, often in humiliating ways, but there were occasional tantalizing moments when everything seemed to be coming together nicely for her.”

Richard Yates, 1978, in: A good school. 

(Photo: Jake Stangel, Dwell)

Her parents decided she needed space to grow up as a healthy little girl.

(Photo: Tommi Merelin)