Union Square Greenmarket, October 24
I’m endorsing Obama endorsing arugula.
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Mug Woman, Mug Man
This morning, something happened to me that was straight out of a kicky ’90s music video. Picture if you will: A brilliant fall morning. The young lady emerges from the door to her building, in her fall jacket, laptop bag clapping against one thigh, teacher-bag clapping against the other, and in her hands she’s balancing [...]
Reading Frenzy, and Thoughts: Why New Yorkers Love and Hate to Read About New York
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 [...]
Book Review: ‘A Map of Home,’ by Randa Jarrar
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 a good place for a retrospective”: Louise Bourgeois @ the Guggenheim
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 [...]
Back to School
I’d been saying for months that I wanted to pick up a class to teach as an adjunct, and now I’ve done it. Tuesday and Thursday mornings find me teaching Composition (I keep calling it “Freshman Comp,” but I have a large sprinkling of sophomores and juniors) at LIM in Midtown Manhattan. Last week was [...]
Zuboff on ‘the Frozen Economy’
I’m digging Shoshana Zuboff’s column in Business Week (actually, to my surprise, I’m finding a lot of swell stuff to read in Business Week) about observing the economic panic of her neighbors in Maine. She invokes the Great Depression and dramatically, but also bravely, she proposes opening our conversation about the economy way, way up: [...]
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