Here are a couple links to my book roundups for 2007: Frieze Magazine and Newsday. Each article involves some scrolling. Definitely worth it to read all the lists–Ali Smith’s piece at Frieze is especially nice, and it looks like The Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters should be the next book I pick up.
Mailer and Germaine Greer in 1971.
From the Guardian: “It was a quiet end to one of the loudest and most controversial voices in American letters.”
From Chris Hegedus and D.A. Pennebaker’s astonishing Town Bloody Hall, comes this immortal bit of Mailer: “If you wish me to act the clown, I will take out my modest little […]
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.
Always excited about new projects from Ariel Schrag. A recent endeavor: editing Stuck in the Middle, an anthology of comics about the trials of junior high school, with work from Ms. Schrag, Gabrielle Bell, Daniel Clowes, and others.
“High Anxiety,” NY Times Book Review
Stuck in the Middle on myspace
This week’s Time Out New York features my interview with Michael Lerner, author of Dry Manhattan: Prohibition in New York City. For more on the book, here’s a link to Pete Hamill’s review in The New York Times Book Review.
Over at Design Observer, Michael Erard has a terrific meditation on sentence diagramming and its link to Catholic schooling. Reporting on a new book by Kitty Burns Florey, Sister Bernadette’s Barking Dog: The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences, Erard reveals the source of his own attraction to the practice:
I liked diagramming sentences for a distinctly […]
Here’s a link to my reviews in yesterday’s New York Times Book Review, including books on casting, Stephen Baldwin’s faith, Jimmy Stewart, Ellen Burstyn, and life on the edges of old Hollywood.
Little Annie (aka Annie Anxiety aka Annie Bandez) and friends will be at Mo Pitkins every Saturday in December.
Visual AIDS hosts a preview party for World AIDS Day tomorrow, Dec. 1, followed by the Postcards from the Edge benefit on Dec. 2 and 3: “the most exciting and affordable way to build a collection of […]
The next reading in the Writers at the Alliance series is coming up. Three writers read from their recent novels:
Clifford Chase (pictured), Winkie
Christopher Sorrentino, Trance
Dana Spiotta, Eat the Document
Tuesday, November 28, 7pm
197 East Broadway
F train to East Broadway
Free
Writers at the Alliance: A Reading Series
This fall I’m coordinating a reading series at the Educational Alliance of New York. (Usually Robert Marshall manages the events, but right now he’s busy with the obligations of his new novel, A Separate Reality.)
Mark your calendars:
Caleb Crain, Melissa Plaut, Brandon Stosuy
Tuesday, October 17, 7pm
Clifford Chase, Christopher Sorrentino, Dana Spiotta
Tuesday, November 28, 7pm
197 East […]