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…
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LaToya Jordan
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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…
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,…
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…
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…
Rock Albums as Books
This is awesome: Christophe Gowans, a graphic designer from London, wondered what it would be like if some of his favorite albums were actual books. He designed book covers and…
Notable New York, This Week 4/11-4/17
This week in New York The Franklin Park Reading Series; Poets Mark Doty, Kathleen Graber, and Patricia Smith at Housing Works; Sex Worker Literati at Bowery Poetry Club; Neil Gaiman…
Uterine Limericks at Mother Jones
Jen Phillips at Mother Jones decided to pen a limerick to express her outrage over the uterine fiasco with the Florida GOP, in which Democratic Representative Scott Randolph was reprimanded…
Kids’ Books as Adult Personality Predictors
If you liked Little Women as a kid: “Family may be the most important thing to you, but that wouldn’t stop you from stealing your sister’s ex boyfriend.” —Flavorwire’s write-up…
100 Years Ago at The New York Times Magazine
“Reading articles 100 years after they were published means that the topics are often surprisingly relevant. For example, when today’s media was talking about the 2010 census, I posted a…
Book Reports on Christianity
Houston Judge John Clinton thought it would be a good idea to replace community service with book reports. Nine defendants were sentenced to reading a book of the judge’s choice and reporting back to…
Notable New York, This Week 3/28-4/03
This week in New York Jennifer Egan at Book Court; Pitchapalooza; The Inspired Word featuring poets Samantha Thornhill and Veronica Golos, along with guitarist Valerie June; The New School Arts…