I’ve had a difficult time writing about Occupy Wall Street. I’m either too exhausted, stunned, or ambivalent about what I have just seen or taken part in that very little of what I write ends up coherent or somehow nuanced. Still, something happened this morning that I can’t just keep in my head: Michael. Bloomberg. Blinked.
Football Jerseys of the Authors
I decided to do some research on the football backgrounds of some famous authors. To say the least, I was SURPRISED by what I found.
TONIGHT IN NYC: Full Stop’s Tori Schacht in Discussion with Author Michael Crumney
Tonight, as part of the Upper North Side reading series at 92Y Tribeca, our own Tori Schacht will be moderating a discussion with Canadian author Michael Crumney.
The Federal Writers Project: The American Guide Series
Funded by the federal government and printed by the states themselves, The American Guide Series was a project of the FWP which chronicled, uniformly, the history and culture of all 48 states.
St. Mark’s Bookshop, stay, don’t go
NYC’s St. Mark’s Bookshop, the absolute oasis amidst the high schoolers, NYU freshman, crust-punks, and t-shirts that comprise the St. Mark’s scene, is having trouble paying its rent.
Revisiting the Federal Writers Project : A Full Stop Mobile
Wouldn’t that have been nice, if at fifteen after seven last night, President Obama said something really incredible, something that charged the imagination of the average unemployed American writer? Perchance to dream.
I hate when i daydream while im reading, and then i have to re-read
Earlier this week, a Reddit user pointed out that the “I Hate Reading” Facebook page has 438,700 “likes”. Appalled, Galleycat conducted further research and found that the “I Hate Books” page has 271,471 “likes”. The universal response? NOOOOOOOOO!
I know I’m a little late to this party, but over the past few weeks of complete catastrophe, during which intelligent thinking has been in little supply, I’ve taken refuge in the RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce) animation series, RSA Animate.
In an inspiring response to censorship, the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library will give away up to 150 free copies of Slaughterhouse Five to high school students in Republic, Missouri.
Damn. It’s hot! Hot Hot Hot Hot! Some weird phenomena (heat) is gripping the northeast and I just can’t staaaaand it! Too hot! So hungry hot! Violent crime wave hot! Garbage can through window hot! Call grandma make sure everything’s-ok hot!