Writer Lesley M. M. Blume Takes Us Partying Through The Past With Hemingway

Well, she's pretty high up there in the ranks. For me, glamour is entirely rooted in intelligence. For instance, writer Gay Talese - who's been a supporter of my book and became a friend - is enormously glamorous to me, and not just because he has impeccable style. It's about the life he has led and continues to lead: decades among the NYC intelligentsia, out five nights a week. Also: Lorin Stein, the editor in chief of The Paris Review. We hosted the launch party for Everybody Behaves Badly at The Paris Review offices; it felt a thousand times more glamorous to me than a glossier event with a cheesy step-and-repeat component. Lorin is gracious, mischievous, and brilliant ... elite but not a snob. I adore him. The most glamorous woman I know? Probably photographer Elizabeth Heyert - again, of the intelligentsia. I also learned so much about intellectual fashion from her, although she would probably hate it that I phrased it this way. She buys her wardrobe from the heart, but the designers are all quite cerebral - CDG, Miyake, the works. Which takes nothing away from their exuberance. They just also happen to be thinkers.