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LaToya Jordan
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Notable New York, This Week 12/12-12/18
This week in New York, the Franklin Park Reading Series; David Lipsky on David Foster Wallace; the 2011 Awkward Office Lit Mag Party; RISK!; launch party for OCCUPY! Scenes from Occupied America; PopRally’s Reliquary House: An Evening with Oneohtrix Point…
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Men’s Magazine or Rapist?
Yuck. According to a new study, most people who are presented with descriptions of women from British “lad’s mags” and statements made about women from convicted rapists can’t tell which source the comments came from. When presented with the statements,…
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Notable New York, This Week 12/05-12/11
This week in New York, Oscar Hijuelos and William Kennedy at the 92nd Street Y; The Paris Review Winter Issue Party; Freerange Fiction reading at Pianos; Authors Martha Southgate and Elissa Schappell at KGB Bar; Poet Alice Fulton reads at…
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The Long and Short of Stories
Long: Chinese novelist Zhang Wei’s book, You Are on the Highland, is 10 volumes, took him to 22 years to finish, and may be China’s longest novel ever. This year, the book(s?) won Zhang China’s Mao Dun Literature Prize. Short:…
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Notable New York, This Week 11/28-12/04
This week in New York, a launch party for Emily Books; n + 1 readings at The Kitchen; How I Learned the Rules of Attraction: Stories About Online Dating; Happy Hour poetry reading with Jericho Brown and Mark Doty; a…
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Food as a Weapon
Pepper is a spice found in almost every household. But in recent news it’s got a bad wrap as the weapon Pepper Spray, used against peaceful protesters and Black Friday shopping competition. At the Village Voice, Robert Sietsema has come…
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Notable New York, This Week 11/21-11/27
This week in New York, Sapphire and Sherman Alexie at the 92nd Street Y; Steve Almond reads from God Bless America; The Gaslight Salon Series; Slick Rick performs; Floating Kabarette; and KGB Bar’s Graphic Novelist Night.
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Literature on YouTube
Fiction Circus is campaigning for YouTube to add a “Literature” category to its current list of categories, which includes music, entertainment, sports, news and politics, comedy, and education. “Filling YouTube with literature, like filling a head with infected snot, will…
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Ann Beattie’s Truth About Writers
“Writers wear atrocious clothes when writing. So terrible that I have been asked, by the UPS man, ‘Are you all right?’ An example: stretched-out pajama bottoms imprinted with cowboys on bucking broncos, paired with my husband’s red thermal undershirt (no…
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Notable New York, This Week 11/14-11/20
This week in New York, the Franklin Park Reading Series with Electric Literature; Authors & Editors with Peter Orner, Love and Shame and Love, and his editor, Pat Strachan; Page Meets Stage with U.S. Poet Laureate Philip Levine and spoken-word…