Tonight is the Franklin Park Reading series. From the press release: Be our Valentine tonight, and we’ll set the mood with candy hearts, romantic cocktails, and $4 pints. You’ll hear funny and poignant love stories from an incredibly talented lineup: literary genius COLSON WHITEHEAD (Sag Harbor, The Intuitionist), acclaimed debut novelist ALISON ESPACH (The Adults), memoirists MIRA PTACIN (Freerange Nonfiction) and MILTON WASHINGTON (Slickyboy), and poet DAVID MCLOGHLIN (Waiting for Saint Brendan). 618 St. Johns Place, between Franklin and Classon […]
Bites: Edith Wharton, James Wood, Twitter, Holden Caulfield, Frank Lloyd Wright
After just finishing an Edith Wharton, it now seems the nineteenth-century satirist is popping up everywhere. In the upcoming New Yorker, Rebecca Mead writes about Wharton’s early letters to her governess, some of which will be up for auction at Christie’s on Wednesday. James “King James” Wood is surprisingly charming in this LA Weekly interview. On being well-read: I never seem very well-read to myself — I only notice the gaps, the thin bits, the bald patches (yes, the analogy […]
Bites: Taschen, Dave Eggers is busy, Egon Spangler, Antony)
Got a thousand bucks to blow? Taschen is putting out their most expensive book in five years, and it’s none other than Norman Mailer’s first posthumous work Norman Mailer, MoonFire: The Epic Journey of Apollo 11. If you want a more creative way to blow a grand, I have this really interesting business project called Vol. 1 Brooklyn that could use some funds. Paper Cuts asks if “Dave Eggers is the busiest man in literature?” We would like to answer […]