## Metadata - Author: [[Benn Stancil]] - Full Title:: The Bonfire of Our Vanities - Category:: #🗞️Articles - URL:: https://benn.substack.com/p/the-bonfire-of-our-vanities - Read date:: [[2026-05-16]] ## Highlights > “All my mania for culture”—and so much of our mania for building?—“for ‘really good’ things, for knowing about jazz recordings and red wine and Danish furniture, even about Keats and Shakespeare and James Baldwin, all what if it’s all a form of vanity?” ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01krqtvngajmk3y531stdjnbkz))