Lesley M. M. Blume
c/o Kate Lee
International Creative Management
730 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10019
For Let’s Bring Back-related inquiries, please contact:
April Whitney
Entertainment Publicist, Chronicle Books
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Casey Lloyd
Senior Publicist
Random House Children’s Books
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Mario Ruiz
Vice President, Media Relations
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Project Migration, which raises funds to assist single mothers in Africa. For each Project Migration fashion product sold, one or more struggling single mothers in East Africa will receive up to 20 years of clean water, along with life-saving medical supplies for her and her children.
The Coalition for the Homeless, and its “First Step” program, which helps homeless, formerly homeless, and low-income women to take the first step toward self-sufficiency through life skill development, job search assistance, and job placement.
New Yorkers for Children, which offers support to young people in foster care throughout the New York City area.
The Humane Society, the nation’s largest animal protection agency, which helps to shield pets and wildlife from cruelty, exploitation, and neglect.
The French Bulldog Rescue Network, whose mission is to “rescue, rehabilitate, and re-home French Bulldogs in need from commercial breeding kennels, import brokers, public shelters, private rescue groups, owners, or Good Samaritans.”
January 12, 2012
NEW BOOK: Ms. Blume’s collaboration with photographer Claiborne Swanson Frank on AMERICAN BEAUTY
November 08, 2011
Gilt Groupe gives a glimpse into Ms. Blume’s upcoming book about vintage cocktails
July 15, 2011
NEW BOOK: Ms. Blume’s IT HAPPENED HERE, a short but amusing social history of old New York
May 31, 2011
NEW BOOK: Ms. Blume’s collaboration with photographer Stephan Würth on GHOST TOWN
February 05, 2011
LET’S BRING BACK to be made into a multi-edition book series
Lesley M. M. Blume is an author, journalist, and cultural observer based in New York City. She has traveled the world and lived elsewhere but New York always calls her back.
The daughter of a classical pianist and a journalist, she followed her father’s footsteps first to his alma mater and then into the newsroom. Since then, she has written for many world-renowned publications, contemplating topics as diverse as the implosion of the traditional media, the effectiveness of missile shield technology, and a pair of Surrealist Marc Jacobs shoes.
A noted nostalgist, Ms. Blume recently published a cultural encyclopedia celebrating the lost pleasures of bygone eras. Chief among them: top hats for gentlemen, parasols for ladies, and a cultivated air of mystery upheld by both sexes. In her opinion, it would be nice to bring back Astor-style midnight suppers, cuckoo clocks, Groucho Marx, and whoopie cushions as well.
For the amusement of children, Ms. Blume has authored three novels and two collections of short stories. Extraordinary things happen to the characters in these books. Nine times out of ten, they are whisked off to fantastical realms. Sometimes they return and sometimes they do not.
Sadly, most of Ms. Blume’s heroes and heroines are dead or fictional. They include but are not restricted to: Diana Vreeland, Marlene Dietrich, Isak Dinesen, Katharine Graham, Zero Mostel, Royal Tenenbaum, the Marchesa Casati, Oscar Wilde, Elsa Schiaparelli, Anthony Blanche, Flora Post, Theodore Roosevelt, Lee Miller, Edith Wharton, and Collette.
Learn more after the leap.
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