Never cop garbage again with Molly Young's "crazy brain-hack"
Her custom LIFE IN HELL surfboard is super wavy, too
Molly Young is one of the best culture writers in the game. You wanna read a ‘definitive profile’ of Jonah Hill, full of sharp observations and bon mots aplenty?? Molly delivered a classic for the NYT Magazine.
At GQ she’s written stories with high-spice content about St. Vincent, Donatella Versace, and a sleeper must-read on celebrity menswear super-stylist Ilaria Urbinati. Oh, u love exquisite literature? Molly is New York Magazine’s literary critic so do yrself a favor and check in with her books newsletter, Read Like the Wind, and also buy her extremely good new zine about gross old rich weirdos, The Things They Fancied, which BBSP highlighted here.
On top of all that, Molly has Mach 3+ taste levels when it comes to copping weird & unique s**t, so when we learned that she owns a custom surfboard featuring a design from Matt Groening’s pre-Simpsons cult-classic comic Life In Hell, we hit her up to find out more…
Blackbird Spyplane: We had to do this call in the afternoon because this morning you went surfing — did this beautiful custom board do its damn thing in the saltwater??