Archive for July, 2007


Private desks at the Mercantile Library

Apartment too cramped for a desk? Sick of writing at the kitchen table and having to move your shit to chop onions? Or maybe that’s just my life. But if I weren’t three seconds away from giving up on NYC rents and moving to Jersey City, I’d at least take a trip up to check out the Mercantile Library’s “Writers’ . . .

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Happy weekend from the cheating husband

My grandmother kept letters documenting the fallout from my grandfather’s affair (with the woman who became his next wife). In this missive (below), he urges my grandmother to leave her parents’ place and come back to him. The language becomes increasingly unhinged and self-pitying; I suspect he was getting progressively shitfaced as he wrote. Some notable passages (typos reproduced from . . .

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