{"id":5552,"date":"2025-08-10T12:14:34","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T19:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/?p=5552"},"modified":"2025-08-10T14:49:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T21:49:19","slug":"poshlost-news-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/2025\/08\/10\/poshlost-news-to-me\/","title":{"rendered":"poshlost &#8211; news to me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From a book review by Martin Filler in the August 10, 2025 New York Review of Books <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/online\/2025\/08\/10\/the-apprentices-sorcerer-conde-nast-si-newhouse-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Empire of the Elite: Inside Cond\u00e9 Nast, the Media Dynasty That Reshaped<\/a> America <\/em>by Michael M. Grynbaum, he drops this term which is news to me:<\/p>\n<p><strong>poshlost<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But the best of them all at capturing Cond\u00e9 Nast\u2019s sickly overload of pretense and privilege is Francine du Plessix Gray\u2019s psychologically penetrating 2005 memoir of Liberman\u2019s marriage to her mother, Tatiana du Plessix Liberman, another Russian-born \u00e9migr\u00e9 to France and thence to the US in 1941. Titled Them, like a Fifties horror movie, it mercilessly unmasks these monstres sacr\u00e9s of midcentury New York high life. In Gray\u2019s retelling their saga becomes pure <strong>poshlost<\/strong>, that untranslatable Russian word beloved by Nabokov, denoting vulgarity and false cultural importance.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a book review by Martin Filler in the August 10, 2025 New York Review of Books Empire of the Elite: Inside Cond\u00e9 Nast, the Media Dynasty That Reshaped America by Michael M. Grynbaum, he drops this term which is news to me: poshlost: But the best of them all at capturing Cond\u00e9 Nast\u2019s sickly &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/2025\/08\/10\/poshlost-news-to-me\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4314,5,7],"tags":[5152,5153,5154,5155,5151,4873,5150],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-sergneri","4":"post-5552","6":"format-standard","7":"category-arts","8":"category-content","9":"category-faits-divers","10":"post_tag-conde-nast","11":"post_tag-francine-du-plessix-gray","12":"post_tag-martin-filler","13":"post_tag-michael-m-grynbaum","14":"post_tag-nabokov","15":"post_tag-new-york-review-of-books","16":"post_tag-poshlost"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5552"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5555,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5552\/revisions\/5555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}