David Hajdu

  • Notable NYC: 9/9–9/15

    Literary events and readings in and around New York City this week!

  • Notable Los Angeles: 8/14–8/20

    Monday 8/14: WRITE CLUB Los Angeles Chapter 66: Strange Magick. Featuring readings by Yasamin Safarzadeh, Anahita Safarzadeh, Justin Welborn, Raven Mystere, Marc Rigaud, and Vincent Lacey. Hosted by Paula Killen, Justin Wellborn, and Jeff Dorchen. 7 p.m. at The Bootleg Theater.…

  • Words for Words Without Music

    Philip Glass has written a memoir. Philip Glass has written a memoir. The composer Philip Glass has written a memoir. Philip Glass has written a memoir. It begins in Baltimore. The composer Philip Glass has written a memoir. It begins…

  • Weekend Rumpus Roundup

    First, take a walk down memory lane with David Hajdu’s visual memoir of his favorite bar, Bradley’s, boasting art by John Carey. And in the Sunday Essay, Jordan Rosenfeld takes a frank look at the many ways a mother’s boldness…

  • Bradley’s

    Bradley’s

    I grew up in bars. There were a thousand of them in the sweaty little mill town in New Jersey where I was raised, and my father liked them all.