The other night, while cooking dinner at home, I explored the lower reaches of New York City’s FM radio dial. Somewhere below WNYC, I found an (I think?) Greek radio station, at which a young woman was interviewing the author Alexis Stamatis about his new novel, American Fugue, which has been translated into English.
Stamatis, who [...]
I have a book review of Randa Jarrar’s coming-of-age novel, A Map of Home, out today in the L Magazine, NYC’s downtown freebie.
I’ve admired the L Magazine since it started up in ‘03-ish, and I am super psyched to be in its pages.
It’s official: I’ll be moderating a panel on science blogging at the Soho Apple Store in NYC at 7pm on October 1st.
The event is an hour long, and it brings together five talented science bloggers who have never before been in the same place at the same time. Expect intelligent discourse about science literacy, technology [...]
(Paraphrasing from some emails:)
Mother: I harvested sixty pounds of fresh tomatoes from my garden!
Daughter: Oh, I wish you could send me some.
Mother:
It’s a drizzly night and starting to feel like early fall. Alison and I just came back from the Louise Bourgeois exhibit at the Guggenheim. The exhibit is a retrospective. It showed work from the 1940s to today. It’s hard to imagine one person’s active working life spanning so much history, but there it all [...]
Of all the homemade videos that I saw of the RNC protests, I think this one was the most moving.
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