This handy guide to other cities makes it easier to leave New York.
April is the cruelest month, I’ve heard a poet say
But not for me because there’s Poem in Your Pocket Day
Each year, I get to publish my new verse – it’s quite a perk
Too bad reporters always ask me to describe my work
Mayor Mike Bloomberg: billionaire, philanthropist, corn syrup’s nemesis, and… poet?
Not quite a TARDIS, but close enough to entice New Yorkers.
If Martin Scorsese develops a TV series based on Gangs of New York but it doesn’t feature Daniel Day-Lewis or Leonardo DiCaprio, will anybody watch it?
“It took forever to get the fucking stories I needed to do this project,” says Díaz, whose lunch conversation runs like an advanced literary seminar taught by a bilingual stand-up comedian working very blue. One early version of the title story began at Rutgers, where he went to college and met his first love; another was set in Boerum Hill, where he lived in a cheap walk-up before Drown was published. Eventually, he put the whole thing aside to write The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, a tragicomic picaresque set against the backdrop of his native country’s midcentury Trujillo dictatorship, which won him the Pulitzer Prize. Shortly afterward, he was asked to be on the Pulitzer Prize board, completing his rocket arc into the Establishment.
It was, in some ways, the worst time in his life.”
Boris Kachka, profiling Junot Díaz in anticipation of This is How You Lose Her, in New York.
Source: New York Magazine
Bill Morris remembers Elaine Kaufman, late proprietress to the resteraunt once described as “a therapy center, a halfway house for husbands between wives, a late-night talk show without cameras and microphones or commercial interruptions, a place that caters to the nocturnal needs and nourishments of New Yorkers who, as evening approaches, are not sure with whom they wish to dine, or with whom they wish to sleep after they dine, or even if they wish to sleep.”
In honor of Elaine, the Table 4 Writers Foundation is offering $2,000 grants to writers.
![Illustration enthusiasts in New York should be sure to stop by “Gorey Preserved,” an exhibition of “nearly every edition of every work published by [Edward] Gorey, in addition to illustrations for dust jackets and magazines, etchings, posters, and design ephemera” on display at Columbia University until August 10th. For those unable to stop by, Eve Bowen takes readers on a virtual walk through the exhibit and includes plenty of links to his drawings online.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8c9wjgVY61r6xvfko1_1280.jpg)
Illustration enthusiasts in New York should be sure to stop by “Gorey Preserved,” an exhibition of “nearly every edition of every work published by [Edward] Gorey, in addition to illustrations for dust jackets and magazines, etchings, posters, and design ephemera” on display at Columbia University until August 10th. For those unable to stop by, Eve Bowen takes readers on a virtual walk through the exhibit and includes plenty of links to his drawings online.
Hey New York!, Cabinet Magazine has too many books on their shelves. Help them trim the fat; they’re selling books for $1-$3 all week.
“The proposed renovation, known as the Central Library Plan (CLP), is making scholars like me nervous, and to spell out why involves thinking about the library’s mission. Or rather, missions.”
- Caleb Crain on remodeling the New York Public Library
“They say fiction requires conflict; well, when New York was a war of all against all, you had all the conflict you could handle any time you put your feet on the street.”
Source: themillions.com
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