Archive for June, 2007


NYC book truism

At The Strand’s 80th birthday gala, Fran Lebowitz correctly observed that New York breaks down into two groups: “people with five thousand books and people with the space for them.”

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The Smart Set: Lauren Cerand’s weekly events

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 . . .

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Lois and me: A guest dispatch from Will Allison

Will Allison‘s first novel, What You Have Left, depicts cycles of abandonment and longing set in motion across generations by a father’s disappearance. The writing is as precise as the story is emotionally true, and, when I finished the book and read Allison’s author bio, I wondered if he would attribute his concision to reading and editing manuscripts for STORY . . .

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Why Dickens matters

Dickens’ Bleak House explores both justice and “man’s sad efforts to approximate it in a regime driven not by justice but by law.”

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