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LaToya Jordan
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Notable New York, This Week 5/09-5/15
This week in New York the winners of the “Discovery”/Boston Review read at the 92nd Street Y; Largehearted Lit presents a family reading at WORD; Suzanne Vega performs for a Girls Write Now benefit; Martín Espada reads from his new…
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Writing About a Psychiatrist’s Death
“Dr. R’s is the Voice of the memoir—the voice in her head. So did writing the book end up being her way of continuing the conversation with him? ‘That was really the point,’ she says. ‘I was so scared of…
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Happy Mother’s Day! Time to diet?
Apparently, Barnes & Noble thinks your mom is fat and needs to start dieting: the company sent an e-mail to it’s subscribers with a Mother’s Day gift list and the most prominently featured book was a diet book. The book…
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Notable New York, This Week 5/02-5/08
This week in New York Ai Weiwei’s public art installation debuts at Central Park; a talk on manga and graphic novels at The Japan Society; Kathryn Harrison, author of The Kiss at Housing Works; NOON spring issue launch party; Willow…
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Notable New York, This Week 4/25-5/01
This week in New York the PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature, Cartoonists battle at FISTICUFFS at the 92Y Tribeca, How I Learned It’s Not Me, It’s You (Or Maybe It’s Me), Girls Write Now Chapters Reading with Anna…
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Photos of Children Reenacting Tragedies
Canadian photographer Jonathan Hobin convinced the parents of some very cute kids to allow him to photograph their children reenacting scenes from real-life tragedies, including the September 11th attack on the World Trade Center, the Abu Ghraib prison torture, and…
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Letter to the Editor
“Jess Row…snidely suggests that, for writers of “a certain age — my age . . . born in the 1970s,” Doctorow “is familiar more by reputation than by any direct influence.” Why do those in their 30s think the world…
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Elif Batuman Meets Jonathan Franzen
“I told him that I had loved Freedom, which is true and would have been a great ending point for our exchange. So it’s difficult to articulate what possessed me, at a later, boozier point in the dinner, to ask…
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Notable New York, This Week 4/18-4/24
This week in New York, The Poetry Society of America takes on Irish and American poetry, Page Meets Stage at the Bowery Poetry Club, Rumpus Books Editor Andrew Foster Altschul reads with poet Nick Flynn at powerHouse Arena, spend Earth…
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Short Stories About Oil
“…it’s all around us, seeps into everything we do, but we don’t see it, we can’t see it, because it’s simply everywhere. It powers us into work, takes us on holiday, lights up our homes and cools down our food.…