Notable NYC: 5/11–5/17
Literary events in and around NYC this week!
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Posts Tagged: John Wray
Notable NYC: 3/30–4/5
Literary events in and around NYC this week!
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #159: John Wray
“I think the material itself should be calling the shots.”
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Notable Los Angeles: 11/12–11/18
Literary events in and around L.A. this week!
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Notable NYC: 10/6–10/12
Literary events in and around NYC this week!
...moreNotable NYC: 3/11–3/17
Saturday 3/11: Carolyn Hembree, Neil Shepard, and Terese Svoboda read poetry. Berl’s Poetry Shop, 7 p.m., free. Chris Tysh and Cole Swensen join the Segue Series. Zinc Bar, 4:30 p.m., $5. Sunday 3/12: Joshua Mohr discusses his memoir Sirens with Charles Bock. McNally Jackson Books, 7 p.m., free.
...moreRubbing Elbows
Sometimes it feels like New York isn’t full of interesting people so much as people who are more interesting than you. For BuzzFeed Books, John Wray describes the mediocrity of being surrounded by greatness: Who did I think I was, with my childish, provincial, self-indulgent scribblings?
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The Lost Time Accidents by John Wray
Erin Wilcox reviews The Lost Time Accidents by John Wray today in Rumpus Books.
...moreNotable New York, This Week 4/5 – 4/11
This week in New York The Rumpus throws an A Night Together with Sam Lipsyte, Michael Showalter, Lorelei Lee, Jeff Lewis, Jump-Off winners and more, Jamaica Kincaid and Rick Moody help collect Books for NY Schools, Richard Nash and Jim Hanas debate fiction and technology, Gary Shteyngart and Amy Sohn host a Shabbat dinner, Robert […]
...moreNotable New York, This Week 9/28-10/4
This week in New York, Charles Simic reads, Spin Mag hosts Salman Rushdie, The New York Film Festival opens, Philip Seymour Hoffman stars in Peter Sellars’ production of Othello and Robert Lepage’s “Mindblowing” Lipsynch begins at BAM. Monday, September 28, 2009 – Sunday, October 4, 2009 Monday 9/28: Tosca. The Metropolitan Opera’s new production of […]
...moreZach Galifianakis Is Absurd
John Wray, author of the novel Lowboy, recently wrote “The Making of Zach Galifianakis” for The New York Times Magazine. Wray takes a long look at how the scruffy comedian, who leans more on performance art than old school stand up, became the “comedic hope of his generation.” He also writes about Zach’s beard:
...moreNotes from Underground
The world will end in a matter of hours… unless Lowboy can lose his virginity.
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