After a hopeful move to a new location, the beleaguered St. Mark’s Bookshop is once again in danger of closing due to a dispute with its landlord. This time,…
Inside the Vale of Cashmere, a Bucolic Cruising Spot Threatened By ‘Restoration’
Like many Brooklynites, Prospect Park is my go-to, but the awesomely named Vale of Cashmere– a relatively isolated area on the east side of the…
Wanna Be a ‘Glorious Mess’? Peep This ‘Brooklyn Street Style’ Book
It’s not the main focus of the book, but in the last chapter of Brooklyn Street Style: The No-Rules Guide to Fashion, authors Anya Sacharow and Shawn Dahl…
Talks + Readings: Reformed Hoarder, Beautiful Bureaucrat, and a New BK Lit Rag
TUESDAY The state of Barry Yourgrau’s Queens apartment had gotten pretty bad at the time his girlfriend unexpectedly dropped in because she had locked herself out…
An Island of Misfit Books Gets Washed Away
The scale of Andrew Beccone’s office is intimate, and he sits right in the middle of it, with dozens of books in teetering piles everywhere.…
Talks and Readings: Letterman Writer, Iranian Women, and the Quest For 78s
Time again for Word Up, our weekly roundup of talks and readings. TUESDAY Tongo Eisen-Martin is a movement worker and educator who has organized against…
On Andy Warhol: Wayne Koestenbaum in Conversation with Stephen Koch
Discover an Andy Warhol who is “anything but the removed observer of most popular accounts” with critic, poet and CUNY professor Wayne Koestenbaum, whose writing…
The Burbs Before Bushwick: Meryl Meisler Straddles ’70s Long Island and Downtown
Meryl Meisler turned heads last year with her photographs of Bushwick in the late ’70s and early ’80s, when the neighborhood was racked by arson,…
Two Events to Celebrate Local Zines and Indie Publishers Approacheth
This is officially the season where all these people who describe themselves as your friends keep calling (on the actual phone, wtf), beckoning you to…
How Kate Bolick Got Off the Conveyor Belt and Embraced Spinsterism
In 2011, Kate Bolick touched off a heated debate with her confessional Atlantic article “All the Single Ladies,” which described her experience breaking up with…