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John Colapinto On the ‘Dangerous’ Literary Sex Novel That Put Him in the Eye of a Tweet Storm
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How the Author of Killing Williamsburg Got Questlove to Do a ‘Suicide Set’
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Tomorrow at Trash Bar there’s a book party for Killing Williamsburg, and it won’t be the usual wine-and-cheese affair: starting at 7 p.m., the one and only Questlove will spin songs by musicians who killed themselves. Morbid as it may sound, the night’s “suicide set” is in keeping with the book’s macabre plot: a cynical Williamsburger is jolted from his ennui when a plague of mysterious, gruesome suicides threatens to turn his “hip, hopping, happening” neighborhood into a ghost town.
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Dagmara Dominczyk: Greenpoint Still Smells Like Sausage and Ciggies
“It still smells the same, oh my God — like sausage and cigarettes,” said Dagmara Dominczyk. After two years away from her neighborhood of nearly a decade, the actress had returned to Greenpoint to read from her new novel, “The Lullaby of Polish Girls.”
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