Books

How To Cook (and Dress) A Wolf

Posted to Anecdote on the topic of Books on the topic of Food on the topic of NYC on 15 December 2008, with 2 comments so far.

These are the busiest weeks of the year, these couple before Christmas.
I sort of like it.
On Sunday, A— and I threw a clothing swap at our place. We had a dozen ladies over. She made cinnamon buns and I made tea sandwiches (Pernod-marinated fennel and green apple and minted radish, and lox and cream cheese [...]

Miranda July and Lindsay Beamish Discuss ‘No One Belongs Here More Than You’

Posted to Books on the topic of Videos on 14 November 2008, with no comments so far.

Miranda July’s bright yellow collection of short stories is still sitting, unread, on my shelf. I was on the fence about the one story that I read in the New Yorker or wherever, but I have the feeling that there may be a warming-up-to-it curve. In any case, the ‘Learning To Love You More‘ website [...]

Reading Frenzy, and Thoughts: Why New Yorkers Love and Hate to Read About New York

Posted to Art on the topic of Books on the topic of NYC on the topic of Readings on the topic of Videos on 16 October 2008, with no comments so far.

I’m in a reading frenzy recently: two thick novels in the last ten days. I inhaled ‘Then We Came to the End,’ by Joshua Ferris, and then moved immediately into ‘The Emperor’s Children,’ by Claire Messud. Purely by coincidence, each novel features an unstable character whose catalytic effects on the plot are driven by an [...]

Alexis Stamatis on Louise Bourgeois

Posted to Blogs on the topic of Books on 26 September 2008, with 2 comments so far.

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 [...]