By Jason Diamond In a land (Williamsburg) where sweet bars have gone away without a fight, Pete’s Candy Store has continued to thrive, and has been doing the same cool programing for ten years. It’s one of the only bars left in the northern part of Brooklyn where I don’t walk in to room where the douchebags outnumber the non-douchebags. To celebrate ten years of being unfriendly to douchebags, they’re getting Sam Lipsyte to read, this Thursday. I never get […]
Tuesday Morning Stuff: Vassar Girls Making Noise, Zadie Smith, Misfits Covers, and More
Ever heard of The Vassar G-Stringers? Me neither, until now. Hey Zadie! Zadie Smith has a new book column at Harpers. People (like myself) are psyched. Inferno by Eileen Myles is reviewed at 3:AM Magazine. Superchunk + Todd Barry =s Misfits cover.
Weekend Bites: Willa Cather’s Hood, Etgar Keret, Emma Straub’s Rituals, HTMLGIANT Looking Fresh, Andrew W.K.’s Philosophy, and More
Willa Cather’s Nebraska. At N+1: a story by Etgar Keret from a book that is yet to be published in English.
Gabe & Jenny Tell Us What’s Wrong With Books
As shitty as it is that Jenny Slate is no longer on SNL, maybe she will spend more time with her partner, Gabe Liedman.
Kranky Kaplan and Wise Kaplan Live on Stage
Posted by Jason Diamond My girlfriend doesn’t understand my obsession with the Cranky Kaplan and Wise Kaplan. But really, what’s not to love? The two guys behind the Twitter accounts, Peter Stevenson and Jim Windolf, will be reading together live tomorrow at Happy Ending. I’d go, but I’ll be stuck being a good Jew on Yom Kippur.
College Football and Lit Pub Crawl: Tomorrow is a Glorious Day
Posted by Jason Diamond I think that a persons choice in college football can be compared to a persons choice in favorite liquors: your personal choice is something you’ve cultivated a taste for, quality is of the essence, and nobody can really sway your opinion. I’m an unabashed Big Ten fanatic. Make of that what you will.
Dick Watching: The Chase
Posted by Juliet Linderman Hey there Dicksters, you know what time it is. That’s right: It’s dick time. Moby Dick, that is. Here are your weekly links, for your viewing pleasure. Let’s get started!
Thoughts That Came out of a Secular Rosh Hashanah Dinner Party
Posted by Jason Diamond I hosted a small, totally secular and non-traditional Rosh Hashanah dinner for the Jewish (and non) orphans in New York last night. It was nice. Adam Wilson made kugel, Justin Taylor brought Mexican beer, Adam Whitney-Nichols of Fortnight Journal gave everybody really tiny bells for some reason that I still don’t understand. (Don’t you love name dropping?) All in all, it was a lovely time. When you have a dinner party of any sort, there is […]