![]() ![]() “I’m still trying to get out of student debt,” Cox said, sitting opposite Hooks. “Is it for the fame, or is it for the money?” ![]() ![]() ![]() “You’ve been hard-core travelling,” Hooks said, with admiration. Hooks is a fan of Cox, who arrived at the Jade in sweats (she had just flown in from L.A.) and full hair and makeup. She was about to engage in a public conversation with Laverne Cox, the actress and transgender advocate, who plays Sophia Burset on “Orange Is the New Black” and was recently featured on the cover of Time. “I’m wondering if you have to be attractive to get in. “The New School students are so cute,” Hooks said. On Tuesday evening, Hooks was joined in the lobby by a clutch of eager young students. One corner of the hotel’s lobby became Hooks’s personal fiefdom for the week in her non-scheduled hours, she greeted guests, chatted with friends, received supplicants. She was back in the Village recently, serving as a scholar-in-residence at the New School, and staying at the Jade Hotel, on West Thirteenth Street. The writer and social critic Bell Hooks lives in Kentucky, where she is the Distinguished Professor in Residence of Appalachian Studies at Berea College but for many years she was a New Yorker, with an apartment on Perry Street. Laverne Cox and Bell Hooks Illustration by Tom Bachtell ![]()
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