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Issue 39
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![THE WALKMAN
Sony co-founder Masaru Ibuka enjoyed listening to opera when he traveled for business. The only problem, as he complained to an employee, was the size of the stereo tape recorder he carried with him. In 1979, a pioneering solution was designed: a handheld, battery-operated cassette player with headphones that was dubbed the “Walkman.” Its success was immediate. As the first portable device, the Walkman revolutionized people’s ability to enjoy music on the go. And go they did—according to Time, at the height of the Walkman’s popularity, when it was used as a companion to workouts, the number of people who walked for exercise increased by 30%.](https://www.kinfolk.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/The_Next_Best_Thing_04-350x526.jpg)
THE NEXT BEST THING
From Tamagotchis to cassette tapes: A celebration of the tech that shaped a generation.
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Grace Mahary
Kyla Marshell interviews the sommelier with a close to perfect palate—and a vision to change the industry.
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Pierre Yovanovitch
Pierre Yovanovitch’s ultimate design showroom is also his home of more than a decade. Annick Weber meets the man with the keys to the castle.
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Elise By Olsen
The publishing maven who’s forcing the fashion industry to listen to the young people it fetishizes.
![Rabbi Abby Stein is the first publicly transgender woman to have grown up in the ultra-Orthodox Hasidic Jewish community. She was interviewed in Issue Thirty-Eight, the Rituals Issue.](https://www.kinfolk.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Note_to_Self_01-350x453.jpg)
Note to Self
What advice would you give your younger self? An artist, a writer, a conductor, a curator, a rabbi and a robot pen missives to the past.
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Archive: Jean Stein
Annick Weber chronicles the life of one of New York’s great storytellers.
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Eva Victor
Nathan Ma meets Eva Victor: the character comedian changing her industry without leaving her apartment.
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Hôtel Martel
A visit to the Parisian cul-de-sac where the legacy of Robert Mallet-Stevens lives on.
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Nic Stone
How can a young adult fiction author tackle racism, inequality and incarceration—but not rob teen readers of their optimism?