Notable New York, This Week 11/12-11/18
This week in New York, events are coming back online post-Sandy (but please consider helping Powerhouse Arena, or lending a hand at evacuation centers that still need volunteers if you’re…
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Eve Ensler wants you to rise
The Nation features a very knowledgeable and loving essay by Laura Flanders about the inimitable Eve Ensler (author of The Vagina Monologues), her work, and her movement One Billion Rising.…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
The answer to all our problems is urine ! (PS. this is actually totally inspiring.) It turns out the suitcases left behind by people in insane asylums in the early…
“But it’s John Updike in particular that a lot of them seem to hate.”
Upon Philip Roth’s sorta-kinda retirement announcement (my sense is that nothing’s final until everyone is dead) we have been treated to encomia online, and renewed calls that he be given…
The Loft Kid strikes the soul
The New Yorker features an excerpt from Jonathan Lethem’s gorgeous, poetic ode (at times loving, at times sharp, at times you’re not sure) to Andy Warhol and the scene, sense…
Have you heard of The Rolling Jubilee?
Occupy, once again, has devised a clever way of thwarting Wall Street. The Rolling Jubilee is an organization created to “free debtors from their debt” and claims: “We buy debt for pennies…
The Boys Who Grow to be Good
Over at the Los Angeles Review of Books, Sarah Mesle writes a thoughtful essay about the idea, and complications, of manhood as presented in Young Adult literature. “Why is it…
Cheryl Strayed’s Wild: another exciting development!
It looks like the movie adaptation of our very own Cheryl Strayed‘s bestselling memoir Wild is moving along quite nicely. Not only has Wild garnered the interest of Reese Witherspoon, who…
Hurricane Sandy Relief Effort Roundup
News coverage of the Hurricane Sandy aftermath is beginning to wane. But there are still hundreds of thousands of people in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut without power, heat and in many cases, plumbing.
Philip Roth Calls it Quits
In a recent interview with a French magazine, prolific novelist Philip Roth claims his 2010 novel, Nemesis, will be his last. In fact, Roth claims he is even done reading. Roth says: “And…
“I was young just minutes ago”
The latest issue of The Believer features an excellent interview with Maurice Sendak, conducted before his death in May. And because they are very, very nice people they’ve made it available online. Talk about…