February 2010
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WatchVideo of the snowtastrophe up here on 93rd and 3rd.
Colum McCann and John Banville at 92Y
paperbackgirl:
Last night I attended the John Banville and Colum McCann reading at the 92nd Street Y. Banville kicked things off by reading from his latest novel, The Infinities. This was my first exposure to Banville’s writing and the passage he selected to read was both lyrical and hypnotic but maybe not the wisest selection for reading aloud to an audience. I typically do not have a problem...
Brooklyn we go write hard? Which writers live in Manhattan, and which ones live in Brooklyn?
Brooklyn: Jonathan Safran Foer, Paul Auster, Emily Gould
Manhattan: Matthew Gallaway, Colum McCann, Erica Jong
Please reblog with your answers…
Péter Esterházy is: “one of the most widely known contemporary Hungarian writers. His books are considered to be significant contributions to postwar literature.” In 2004, he won the Prestigious Peace prize at the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2004. And Harper Collins has just published the English translation of his book: Not Art: A Novel.
The Unterberg Poetry Center is excited to host...
From Leonard Lopate and WNYC, an mp3 podcast of novelist John Banville talking about latest book, The Infinities: “It tells the story of a family that gathers together as the patriarch is dying. But the family is not alone—they’re joined by some mischievous immortals: Zeus, Pan, and Hermes.” Banville was also recently interviewed by the literary website The Millions, you can read that...
“I went to the John Ashbery hosted poetry reading last night at the 92nd Street...”
– A Fortunate Beau – Insomnia [Beaufort Books]
America’s Dirty Secret? Dirty Refrigerators.
We learned a few new things from the WSJ article linked above. For example, did you know you should not keep apples and carrots next to each other? Apples produce ethylene, a substance that can cause some foods (including carrots) to spoil sooner. Who knew??
Our own “research” shows that cooks and foodies keep a nicer...
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youngmanhattanite:
Let’s meet halfway and do this with things in our freezers.
My freezer is full of my roommate’s frozen pizzas. Literally that is all this mammal eats. I can’t even fit my customary bottle of vodka in there and I am so pissed.
EDIT: Oh and also.
Oh, is this a thing now? Have a look!
I'M GOING TO SEE IAN MCEWAN SPEAK AT THE 92Y IN...
readerx:
a shitty day just improved 1000%.
must start preparing my game face (aka, intelligent versus giddy at being near an author I love so much)
If anyone else wants to join Reader X in improving their day, tickets are still available.
streamland:
The Tenth Muse
A Poetry Reading. This Monday Night at the 92nd Street Y, with John Ashbery. Readings by Marcella Durand, Robert Elstein and my good friend John Gallaher. Be there or be square, my New York City friends! Of course I’ll be there. Readings of any sort at he 92nd Street Y are always worth attending, but a poetry reading is not to be missed.
Here’s a poem by John...
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Leave it to Malcolm Gladwell to come up with a reason why journalism – particularly magazine writing – will survive. Gladwell believes that even if a tiny percentage of people in the world value and subscribe to publications like the New Yorker then that actually translates into a large enough number to sustain the industry.
—Panel Nerds on Adam Gopnik and Malcolm Gladwell at the 92nd Street Y...
Now all we need is Padma
cvxn:
In town, and more importantly, in the kitchen at their respective Vancouver restaurants, star chefs Jean-Georges Vongerichten and Daniel Boulud. There’s never been a better night to have an empty stomach and a fat wallet.
If you could, imagine you said that out loud, and a genie bottle appeared in front of you, wobbling around on the ground and out came this.
That would have been cool.
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Was There A Best Of List Gretchen Parlato Did Not...
For example, a selection of the lists jazz musician Gretchen Parlato’s album In a Dream received in the ‘09: 2009 Voice Jazz Critics’ Poll; Washington City Paper: The Top 10 Jazz Albums of 2009; Jazz Times: Critics Picks: Top 50 New Albums and Top 10 Historical Releases; NPR Music Best of 2009: The Year Of Living Improvisationally, and etc…etc…
The album was,...
Oh my god.
plitter:
TEEN WITCH SING-ALONG A Teen Witch sing-along? Top that! As a tribute to the recently departed Zelda Rubinstein (Poltergeist) we present this fantasy-comedy of a girl who uses her bewitching powers to become the most Popular Girl. Louise Miller (Robyn Lively) yearns to be noticed by her high school’s football captain, but she is just too geeky to catch his eye. When Louise visits Madame...
To The Editor: 'Waste Land' on the East Side?...
The New York Times letters editor Thomas Feyer and op-ed editor David Shipley were at the 92nd Street Y last Thursday to share secrets about writing opinion pieces that get published and discuss the effectiveness of opinion pieces in shaping policy and public opinion. And we were taking notes! After the Times published a piece on Wednesday that referred to the Upper East Side as “a bit of a...
FREE Film Tonight, 6:30pm at 92YTribeca: The Quiet One and Goggles!, a free screening with 16mm film print from the collection of the New York Public Library.
[92YTribeca Film]
And I was just like "Oh my god, I saw him smile....
NYU Local interviews Elana Cohen, a Gallatin student concentrating in “Therapeutic Benefits of Sports, Dance, and Theatre for Special Needs Kids.” AW: How do you ‘interact’ with autistic kids? What’s it all about?
EC: Well one summer I was working with this kid at the 92nd Street Y, and he would dart everywhere in small spaces, and he would bang on windows. I spent my days chasing...
On Thursday, distinguished literary scholar Helen...
Dance Review: STRIPPED with Doug Varone and Dancers at the 92nd Street Y
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Catapulting out of downtown New York City’s music scene in the 80’s with their hit single Cult of Personality, Corey Glover and Vernon Reid of Living Colour are back with a new album. Last year – two decades after they rocketed to fame, the band released the acclaimed album The Chair in the Doorway and is now in the midst of a bona fide global resurgence. New York Magazine has the...
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Gawker’s Alex Pareene claims “The Washington Post Has the Worst Opinion Section in America.” (Worse than ___’s??) Hopefully he has kinder words for the New York Times and their op-ed editor David Shipley and letters editor Thomas Feyer who will be at 92Y tonight to share secrets to writing opinion pieces that get published and discuss the effectiveness of opinion pieces in...
“Before we got to know Snooki and The Situation, there was Casey and the Twins. I’m talking, of course, of the monumental film experiment The Real Cancun…”
And the agreement continues. The Real Cancun is one of the best films you might not have seen.
The Real Cancun plays tonight at 92YTribeca.
How are you spending Snowcoplaspe ‘10. Quick poll (by show of hands), who is in work? Who stayed home?
For those who are home or went home early, 92YTribeca has the perfect event for you tonight: An Early Evening with Dear Old Love, featuring Andy Selsberg, Emily Gould, Tom Shillue, Sara Benincasa and Musical Guest Jeffrey Lewis.
Starting at 6:30pm, the event features talk and song...
After his reading at the 92nd Street Y, I stood in the signing line for upwards of an hour. When my turn finally came, I handed him a book and a white envelope with a letter in it. “I wrote you a note,” I mumbled, nervous, like a kid meeting his favorite baseball player.
“Cool!” Eggers said.
For two weeks, I checked the mailbox with anticipation.
No note.
Then, somehow, I forgot about it....
