Katherine Sharpe is a writer living in Brooklyn. Read more about her here.
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On Friday night, I attended a reading by Al Burian at Book Thug Nation in Williamsburg. Burian is touring in support of his new zine, the long-awaited Burn Collector #15. It was a good time. The tiny space filled to standing room only. Anna and I got seats, near a standing guy whose leather motorcycle [...]
Alison found a gem in the New York Times obituary for Elaine Kaufman, owner of Elaine’s restaurant in New York: After an argument with her, Norman Mailer vowed never to return and wrote her an unflattering letter. She scribbled “Boring” across the top and sent it back to him. A day or two later, he [...]
I’m so delighted to have just bought a new cookbook. When I first moved to New York in 2003, as my only reader will know, I got a job working at a Soho coffee shop called Once Upon a Tart. Owned by a tall Frenchman given to double entendres, Once Upon a Tart kept me [...]
I keep forgetting to take pictures of my food. Maybe that means I am growing out of a ridiculous habit. Or maybe it only means that the food is more delicious, now, too delicious to stop and photograph. There was lots of watercress left over from the tea party last week, so I made a [...]
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 [...]
“Conducive to study” is what we’d have called a day like this back at Reed: tiny, pricking raindrops falling from the sky like cold needles, the whole outside a blanket of dampness and gray. It makes you want to go the the library, make a bright corner, keep dry with old books, and dose yourself [...]
Three cheers for Mayor Bloomberg’s plan to charge six cents for every plastic shopping bag given out in the city. Even (especially?) if it drives down plastic bag use rather than raising a lot of money for the city, it will still be a big victory in my opinion. I’ve always been appalled by NYC’s [...]
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