Here’s a link to my write-up in the Los Angeles Times of the Norman Mailer memorial last week at Carnegie Hall. I got to run on a bit about D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus’s Town Bloody Hall, a documentary of a 1971 debate about Women’s Liberation, which features a slew of literary celebrities as well […]
A review of Richard Schickel’s Film on Paper: The Inner Life of Movies in the Los Angeles Times: link.
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.
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 mackerel, […]
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.