Kristin Dombek’s legendary essay “How to Quit,” published in the winter 2013 edition of n+1, garnered heated word of mouth and praise from the likes of Brooklyn Magazine’s…
Four Readings: Divine Microbial Power and Bad Women Mouthing Off
TUESDAY James Andrew Miller in Conversation with Andrew Ross Sorkin and David O’Connor August 9, 7 pm at Barnes and Noble-Union Square With his new…
Watch the JT LeRoy Doc on a Roof and Try Not to Get Blown Away
As ’90s “it” author JT Leroy once put it in a book title, the heart is deceitful above all things. But not as deceitful as…
Four Readings: Growing Up in the Chelsea Hotel, Nerdy Road Trip, and Life in the Shadow of NASA
Tuesday Nicolaia Rips: Trying to Float July 12, 7pm at Strand Bookstore, 828 Broadway at 12th Street. The Chelsea Hotel is deeply entrenched in New…
Four Readings: Klingon Blood Wine, Abortion Stories, and Refugee Poems
THURSDAY Ed Gross presents: The Fifty-Year Mission July 7, 7pm at Word Bookstore, at Villain LLC at 50 N 3rd Street. Trekkies, this one’s for…
Bedford Ave.’s Spoonbill & Sugartown Expands, Books It to East Williamsburg
After more than 16 years in Williamsburg, bookseller Spoonbill & Sugartown is opening a second store in not-so-distant East Williamsburg. The new location, in the front half of the…
From the Allen Street Boys to Satan’s Sinners, Street Gangs of the Lower East Side
Last week, Elliot Caldwell was fatally shot outside of Campos Plaza, the NYCHA public housing project where he’d grown up. An EV Grieve commenter noted that the 23-year-old…
In New Novel, Youngblood, the Iraq War is a Ghost Story
I’d just barely cracked Matt Gallagher’s debut novel, Youngblood, and, to my surprise, I was really, sincerely into it. Don’t get me wrong, some of my…
St. Mark’s Bookshop Gets Some Time, But Not Much
If things had gone as planned, the St. Mark’s Bookshop would’ve been closed for good by now. But the store has received a stay of execution and…
St. Mark’s Bookshop Receives ‘Execution Notice,’ Down to Final Hours
A lawyer for the struggling St. Mark’s Bookshop tells us “they’re probably not going to be around much longer, we’re talking days.” Since we last reported…