Life After the M.F.A., a.k.a Columbia University Thinks I’ve “Made It”
I was humored and humbled when Columbia University asked me to be on this panel:
Hear me read in NYC this Thursday!
Very much looking forward to reading, to hearing the work of my fellow alums, and to seeing anyone in NYC who is able to come!…
Shit People in Crown Heights Say
That whole "shit X people say" meme trend has come and gone, but I just found some hand-written notes I must have written at some…
“Pat Singer Is the Mother of Brighton Beach”
My latest article is up at The Jewish Daily Forward. It's a profile of a prominent community leader in the predominantly Russian neighborhood of Brighton…
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Ugly Duckling Presse in the News and in My Heart
Over a year ago, I wrote: There are hundreds of small presses cropping up all over the country, publishing in small volumes, often using handmade…
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Today is the 1 Year Anniversary of Occupy Wall Street
UPDATE: [1:46 pm]: Samhita over at Feministing says it way better than I can: "I ask not 'where is occupy?' but what will it take…
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What We Could Have Had
Another instance of demolishing precious architecture in NYC: can you all even imagine what Penn Station used to look like? We would have had another…
Bronx Economy Vs. Brooklyn Economy
Interesting article in The New York Times Magazine (an installment of Adam Davidson's always-interesting economics column) about the Bronx economy and why it hasn't prospered…
Brooklyn Rainstorm
After who knows how many days of a persistent heat wave, the clouds just broke into a thunderous rainstorm. The construction workers on scaffolds outside…
*Another* Brooklyn Reality Show? First Brighton Beach, Now Bay Ridge
A new Oxygen network show ("Brooklyn 11223") is focusing on people of Italian descent living in Bay Ridge, the waterfront district of southwest Brooklyn. Too…
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