Brian McGreevy has had the kind of dizzying career assent you usually only see, well, in the movies. At 28, he’s already been a working screenwriter for years and had two scripts* on Hollywood’s coveted Black List. This month his first novel, Hemlock Grove, was published by FSG and it’s already on it’s way to becoming an original series for Netflix …more

Alina Simone becomes the target of a globe-encompassing beam of love in this edition of Chats with Random Men. …more

When she’s not writing music or books, Alina Simone talks with random men on Facebook.  This time, about Osama bin Laden. …more

Singer Alina Simone chats with random men on her Facebook page — here she welcomes back an old “friend” in this midnight chat with Kleber: …more

Chatting with random men via Facebook, singer Alina Simone solicits advice from Nepal on whether or not to feed her unborn child a donut.   …more

Singer Alina Simone chats with random men on her Facebook page — and occasionally fights with random men … meet Amit. …more

Alina’s old friend Kleber returns for a random Facebook chat, this time with a little surprise. …more

Russian singer Alina Simone continues her random Facebook chats with men, this week discussing constipation and pregnancy with a Turkish fan: …more

For our final installment of Chats with Random Men, Alina has her third random chat with Klebe, who tells her about his random chat with Robin Williams…

7:05pm Kleber
guess who came to restaurant today?

7:05pm Alina
Scarlett Johanssen? Obama? Jesus?

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Part two of Alina’s random chat with Kleber:

7:25pm Kleber
you know what!! here in Times Square people are so freaking weird

7:25pm Alina
listening …more

This chat begins a three-part discussion with Alina’s new friend, Kleber, Klebe, the Klebes:

10:38 pm Kleber

hello Alina Simone

10:38 pm Alina
what’s up, Kleb?

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This week Alina randomly chats with a Nepali poet:

11:07 pm Rajendra
Hi madam

11:07 pm Alina
Hello sir …more

Note: These are actual chats conducted on Facebook with men who instant message the musician Alina Simone.

If you too keep getting scammed for money by Russian women, you won’t want to miss this week’s random chat with James…

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This week Alina randomly chats with Abraham, a modern day renaissance man…

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This week’s random chat with a man — meet Matteo…

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This week we kick off a new blog where Brooklyn-based singer/writer Alina Simone teaches us how to use the Internet for its penultimate purpose: chatting with random men.

Beginning with Emre… …more

Unlovable (Fantagraphics Books) is a graphic novel by Esther Pearl Watson that is based on a diary the author found in a gas station bathroom in the 1980′s belonging to one “Tammy Pierce.” True to the title, Tammy really is unlovable — a terrible student, a social climber, devoid of empathy, clinging to hollow friendships and the first to heap abuse on any other wretched asswipe that comes her way. Yet through a series of vibrant and lurid drawings, her foul-mouthed story still carries you along. Some of us are turned off by the smell of aqua-net; others, loopy with 80′s nostalgia, only breath in more deeply at the first whiff. Well worth getting for the diagram on how to change in gym class ‘without showing anything’ alone.