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Neal Pollack on the non-transforming role writers have in society. “Writers get less respect in this country than people who eat live bugs on television for money!”

John Leland charting the history of Hip, with a not very hip soul patch.

Though it grabs ideas from the bottom of the economic ladder, hip lives in luxury. Poor societies worry about growing enough corn; rich societies can worry about being corny. Hip shapes how we drive, whom we admire, whose warmth we yearn for in the night. Its scent transforms neighborhoods from forbidding to unaffordable.