Laurie Anderson reads from Night Life tomorrow night at Amanda Stern’s Happy Ending series. Lorin Stein and Noy Holland also read.
Nick Antosca‘s first novel, Fires, is just out from Impetus Press, and sits in my to-be-read pile. He contributed this appreciation at my request. If you pass down the gospel of James Salter, you are probably a writer. Salter’s austere and humbling fiction is mostly unknown to the casual reader but canonical for a disproportionate number of widely admired . . .
The Smart Set is a weekly feature, compiled by Lauren Cerand, that usually appears Mondays at 12:30pm and highlights the best of the week to come. Special favor is given to New York’s independent booksellers and venues, and low-cost and free events. Please send details to lauren [at] maudnewton.com by the Thursday prior to publication, with the date in the . . .
Having some trouble conjuring up the usual Monday morning papier-mâchè cubicle smile here, so I’ll refer you to Mr. Maud’s three–part diary of our Austin trip. In short: we ate our weight in breakfast tacos, hung out with friends, supped with James Hynes and his friend Mimi, and experienced Artz with Hayden Childs. Also, Max(x) performed, and I did (emergency) . . .