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Soda Series This Thursday
New Yorkers! This Thursday is doubly excellent for you because not only is it Bastille Day, it’s the next Soda Series event, a reading and conversation series. This event is featuring writers Mary Caponegro, Tim Horvath, and Gary Lutz. Where…
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Never That Young
“I have all the habits of someone who lived [in New York City] in the ’70s,” Fran Lebowitz tells City Room. “Which is that, if I have a pencil, I have a death grip on it. I see the people…
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Let’s Take a Walk Together
James Yeh writes on the Spontaneous Society for Faster Times, Jon Cotner’s ambulatory, real-life interaction/art installation, inciting strangers to interact positively with one another. The project was created in hopes of reigniting a certain kind of social spontaneity that is…
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Jonathan Lethem: Distance Makes the Heart Grow Fonder
Jonathan Lethem has traded in the crowded Brooklyn literary scene for a classroom in sunny Southern California. Nevertheless, he’s currently at work on a novel set back in Queens. Lethem, who describes one of his past books as “an all-out…
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Synecdoche, New York: The Shooting Script
What follows is the introduction to Synecdoche, New York: The Shooting Script, by Charlie Kaufman:
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Men with Balls
“This show is an act of complete personal indulgence. When the good people at apexart approached me about curating something in their space, they made a huge mistake. After some polite back and forth, Steven Rand said to me directly,…
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Pedal Pusher
A popular cycling blog spawns a humorous book about mental and physical survival on big city streets.
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Who’s the Narcissist?
Emily Gould may be the queen of oversharing—but you’re the one reading this review of her book.
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THE BLURB #16: Hungrier, More Successful, a Bit Ruthless
A review of David Goodwillie’s American Subversive that veers off into some really important and complicated and basically unanswerable questions about literature, literary reviews, overstimulation, secret weapons, and 21st century life.
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The Unsettling Visions Of Thomas Disch
“Fantasy is not avoidable. The very act of writing fiction is a sin, a lie. One of Disch’s most haunting stories, ‘Getting Into Death,’ is about a writer (one who uses two pseudonyms, at least one of which Disch used…
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Staging A Beautiful Apocalypse
Today is the birthday of one of my very favorite living writers, Samuel R. Delany. (I spoke once here before about how I share with Junot Diaz an abiding love for Delany’s work.) All it took for him to become…
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Morning Coffee
Warhol’s sport star polaroids. Who doesn’t love a sweaty bat? Contemporary artists design New York taxi signs. Yep. Seed Magazine, going through their best articles of the year, brings you this look at scientists competing to find new worlds. I…