Ed Koch has passed away.

A literary event that “combined the feel of a books party in Lena Dunham’s series Girls with that of a rock gig’s moshpit.”

Today is the Grand Central Station centennial celebration. Go get a 5¢ cup of coffee or a 10¢ shoe shine.

The Nabokov Museum in St. Petersburg has been vandalized in recent weeks by a group called “St. Petersburg Cossacks.”

Fitzgerald’s autograph for Lillian Gish.

This is why Rick Moody writes.

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