April 2009
49 posts
Heading to the Fpill/MoMA Monday Nights party next week http://tinyurl.com/c72szo Excited to finally check out the Klippenberger exhibition
RT @FSG_Books http://twitpic.com/48h3m - Ladies and Gentlemen, the FSG softball team. (We do not look like softball players)
Wish I could be as good at self-improvement as I am at identifying my flaws. Ah life.
Summer hours start on May 18th?!!! Oh man, that is nothing short of awesome.
Praying that the air conditioning in our side of the office is working today.
First iced coffee of the season!! Went to Spoon for some Stumptown goodness.
Moving this weekend, whoa. Did I mention that there’s a dainty chandelier in my new living room?
The Future of Book Coverage: http://tinyurl.com/d8xp9c
Diversity of voice is good, all I’m saying…okay, that’s the end of my rant, promise!
Not to knock Sasha Frere Jones or anything, but it seems like the driving force behind his choices is shock value…Lady Gaga this week?
Lahore on Crosby is GONE! What is going on? My favorite source of samosas is gone??
Uncovering virtues of the unexpected is fun and all, but it happens too often. Getting skeptical and uninterested in NYer’s opinion on music
Is anyone else a little sick of music coverage at the NYer? Thinking that it might be a good idea to have more than one critic.
RT @FSG_books Watch Ta-Nehisi Coates’ reading of Frederick Seidel’s poetry at the Russian Samovar last Tuesday: http://tinyurl.com/d3gudo
I recommend reading Elif Batuman’s essay on the Danilov bells in NYer. Abstract here: http://tinyurl.com/cddu5q
crashing
Just put a deposit down for an apartment in Clinton Hill. The reality of my absurdly poor state is beginning to sink in. But, so excited!
RT @FSG_Books FSG Poetry: Q&A with The Canary’s Nick Twemlow Pt. 2: On MFAs and Slow Readings http://tinyurl.com/dle4y8
Check out the 1st part of my interview with The Canary’s Nick Twemlow, who has fascinating things to say http://tinyurl.com/cxrmjd
If only they would open a Stumptown here. Alas, the nostalgia would only be satisfying if real Oregonians worked there.
Yes!!! RT @NYMag Stumptown Finder: Interactive map of Stumptown Coffee purveyors. http://bit.ly/ZGoqe
Looks like there’s a chance it will be Clinton Hill…
Just got home from seeing An Horse at Mercury Lounge. Love them! So excited to hear they have an album now. I wore out the EP long ago.
Apartment hunting today in Brooklyn. Wish me luck. I’m looking for an affordable ($1300/$1400) 2 br. Keep your ears out for me!
We got our FSG softball t-shirts today! 1st game next Tues. Cross your fingers that i’m not the least athletic of the bunch.
Neko Case on Letterman, singing This Tornado Loves You: http://tinyurl.com/corfdq (via @andevers)
Listening to Frederick Seidel’s audio recordings of the Evening Man poems on nytimes.com. Absolutely fascinating. http://tinyurl.com/dyqfex
I want to be in bed right now. Ready to collapse from ramen overdose.
I love judging books by their covers. http://tinyurl.com/dz24os
Washington Post on Victor Lodato: http://tinyurl.com/dd4d2c. Watch for the wonderful “Mathilda Savitch” this September. (via @fsg_books)
Still haven’t recovered from the terrifying dream I had last night. Won’t be describing for fear of jinxing my entire future.
Found NYMag’s cover story on facebook disturbing and revealing. http://nymag.com/news/features/55878/
Zadie Smith to Wylie: “I’m six foot tall, I’m 19 years old and I don’t exactly look like the back end of a bus” http://tinyurl.com/cj2rwl
Oh man, I want this collection: http://tinyurl.com/bxlyrd @FaberBooks Again, you Brits keep designing pretty books.
Read my Q&A with @RonHogan at The Best Words in Their Best Order! http://tinyurl.com/ce59ej
Fears Topshop.
“I love your long shadows and your gunpowder eyes.” I’m slowly becoming addicted to Neko Case again. Middle Cyclone is fantastic.
Couldn’t have said it better RT @MarieMockett Being a psychopath apparently means never having to say you are sorry.
RT @KMac091 “unstoppable, rampaging beast that is Stephenie Meyer” (Bookseller: http://tinyurl.com/d6afw5)
Thinking it’s really bizarre/wrong that Robert Pattison is playing Salvadore Dali in a movie.
Obsessively listening to Bonobo’s “If You Stayed Over” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3KQyf3EdRg
Thanks to @92Y for reposting my interview with Alex Wilder on their blog!! http://blog.92y.org/
My first post at FSG’s poetry blog, an interview with Alexandra Wilder of 92nd Street Y’s Unterberg Poetry Center. http://tinyurl.com/c5av7x
Happy Ending with John Wray, Wells Tower, and Vampire Weekend is ALREADY sold out. So not fair. How long have they been on sale? An hour?
On my way to a taping of the Colbert Report! Watch at 11 to see Dambisa Moyo on the show.
Of all the sad ends to a very short story, that one was the easiest to stomach. And now, onward and upward.
I’m pretty excited. Just wanted to brag to you all.
RT @FSG_Books Happy National Poetry Month. FSG Poetry Announces a Poem-a-Day http://bit.ly/4rY8D9
Getting the opportunity to wear my favorite, slightly fancy dress tonight for the party. If only my role there was more glamorous.