Archive for June, 2008



The Smart Set: Lauren Cerand’s weekly events

The Smart Set is a weekly feature, compiled and posted by Lauren Cerand, that usually appears Mondays at 12:30 pm, 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 Ms. Cerand at lauren [at] maudnewton.com by the Thursday prior to . . .

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Monday morning subway reading placeholder

The to-do pile is toppling over, so the week’s blogging forecast isn’t great. For now, I invite you to consider, in view of this photo I took on the subway last week (back in those halcyon days when the train was delayed but not altogether useless), a couple essays on reading that you may have seen earlier this year: Ursula . . .

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