This is my friend Steve reading at Magers & Quinn last week. His reading was the last stop on my…
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Last night I went to see Gary Shteyngart read at Magers & Quinn. It was surprisingly delightful. Surprising, because in…
‘Fiction is payback for those who wronged you’
Thankfully, my friend Steve thinks more photographically than I do. If it weren’t for him making an incredulous you have…
My new affectation is destroyed by crack
The latest affectation I am trying to adopt is that of avid note taker. I even bought new Field Notes…
Literary Salon II minus the electric boogaloo
Friday night my friend, Hypster Mom, hosted a sort of literary salon featuring J.C. Hallman author of many things, most…
Worth $30 just to hear Owen Meany’s voice
As we stood in line waiting to get into the venue housing last night’s John Irving reading, Sister #2 set…
Four things about the Lorrie Moore reading last weekend
She’s funny. Which wasn’t wholly unexpected because her stories are funny. But it was reassuring. She was so funny that…
Last night I met an author and didn’t do anything stupid, which is a first
It isn’t often when my love of Rock & Roll collides so beautifully with my love literature. Last night it…
A partial list of famous authors I dissed last night at Grumpy’s much to the chagrin of some classmates
Alice Munro: She’s a big dull dud, her stories are slow and boring. In her defense Kurt said her sentences…
Dear David Carr, I am sorry I am not Paul Westerberg
Last night Jags and I went to see David Carr read at Magers & Quinn and it was awesome. It…