If you’d rather rhyme about your money troubles than debate possible policy fixes for them, allow me to suggest Mellow Pages’ Debt Jam: a night of poetry and banjo to celebrate the recent announcement from Rolling Jubilee that they have purchased and abolished a portfolio of student debt. Brought to you by Strike Debt, the reading is designed(...)
Daphne Merkin may have achortle-inducing last name, but her often painfully personal articles for publications like The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine tended to be more mortifying than mirthful. Subjects like her battle with depression, her spanking fetish, and her years of therapy have made up a good chunk of Merkin’s oeuvre, a fact belied by(...)
During this series at the Brooklyn Brewery, which serves as a fundraiser for Reporters Instructed in Saving Colleagues, the brewery’s founder Steve Hindy (a former foreign correspondent) interviews the best in his former field. This season’s guests include NPR correspondent Deborah Amos on May 22, Scott Anderson (Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and(...)
What in the world are Buzzfeed, Mashable, and Vice up to as they expand their international coverage? Amy O'Leary of The New York Times innovation teams talks to editors from all three media companies about their recent moves into the global space. On the panel are Louise Roug, Global News Editor of Mashable, Miriam Elder, Foreign(...)
If you’ve managed to miss the somewhat obnoxious Vice/You Tube advertisements plastered all over the city (“YOU don’t just watch the news,” apparently), then let me fill you in: Vice Media, erstwhile counterculture teen zine from Montreal, is now valued at $1.4 billionand radically expanding its international coverage. Their recent Islamic State video series quickly went viral, and(...)
During this series at the Brooklyn Brewery, which serves as a fundraiser for Reporters Instructed in Saving Colleagues, the brewery’s founder Steve Hindy (a former foreign correspondent) interviews the best in his former field. This season’s guests include NPR correspondent Deborah Amos on May 22, Scott Anderson (Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and(...)
What would you do if you believed you had only 10 days to live? Now, what would you do if your dad thought that and in response sent scathing emails to all his family members about how they should better live their lives? That’s the premise of Annie Liontas’ novel Let Me Explain You, told(...)
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 style has been described as “an impossible lovechild from a late-night, drunken three-way between Joan Didion, Roland Barthes, and Susan Sontag.” He’ll be joined by Stephen Koch, author of Stargazer:(...)
Whether you’re harboring literary ambitions or are just curious, “The Hustle” should be an entertaining glimpse into what its like to be a successful professional writer. The discussion includes authors Angela Flournoy, Leigh Stein and Jennifer Baker, who will delve right into the personal stuff like how they pay bills and how they get work(...)
This is definitely one for the book fetishists out there. BOMB Magazine organizes this yearly affair, which has only grown in size while Big Publishing has been on the wane– great(...)