Monthly Archives: June 2007

Evergreen Video

I suppose it was bound to happen. Last night, in Evergreen Video on Carmine St., I eavesdropped on another customer’s conversation, and then asked the clerk to confirm what I’d just heard, which was that my favorite video store was closing on June 30. “Is it Netflix?” I asked, feeling remorse for having joined. He [...]
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Book reviews

Links to recent reviews: a Mel Brooks biography and Don Rickles’ memoir in the New York Times Book Review; Rebecca Solnit’s essay collection, Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics, in Bookforum‘s summer issue; and Michael Ondaatje’s Divisadero in the latest Time Out New York.
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