Monthly Archives: April 2008
Film on Paper
A review of Richard Schickel’s Film on Paper: The Inner Life of Movies in the Los Angeles Times: link.
Awkward, Definition, Party
Alison Bechdel calls Ariel Schrag’s comic chronicles of high school, “a scathing and meticulously documented autobiographical triumph.” Ariel will be at Rocketship tomorrow for the release party of Awkward and Definition. With a slideshow, too! More here.
“Luxury condominiums for fish”
Reporting from Slaughter Beach, Delaware, Ian Urbina has an article in today’s New York Times about the offshoring of the MTA’s Redbird trains to create artificial reefs, a combination of the subway and the natural world that I find fascinating. In the last several years, the reefs have drawn swift open-ocean fish, like tuna and [...]
Facts & Fictions
My friend Luis Jaramillo is starting a new reading series at the Montauk Club, a Venetian Gothic palazzo in Brooklyn, complete with stained glass and mahogany—not to mention grandeur and decay. The first reading, with Alex Prud’homme and Kim Sunée, will be Wednesday, April 23.
Mailer Remembered