Bright Young Things

NAME: Diana Mellon. AGE: 22. HOMETOWN: New York City. SECONDARY SCHOOL: Nightingale-Bamford School. COLLEGE: Yale. JOBS: Writing for the New Haven Advocate, making a photo essay on buildings in New Haven, and curating the picture blog “The Fraud,” which compares current and historical images and works of art (isthisthefraud.blogspot.com). FAVORITE BOOKS: The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor, Moby-Dick, A High Wind in Jamaica, First Love (Ivan Turgenev). CAUSE: Domestic violence. FAVORITE SPOT IN THE WORLD: “The terrace of my mother's childhood home in Klosters, Switzerland.” ONE DAY I HOPE TO: “Make a freaky film.” AMBITIONS: “To be a curator—I want to use what I've encountered designing theater sets to build environments of art.” WOULD LOVE TO HAVE DINNER WITH: The Egyptian king Akhenaton, and Saint Francis and his birds.

FAN FAIR

SEPTEMBER 2009

30 DAYS! IFE OF THE CULTURE