New Pamuk incoming
Orhan Pamuk has nearly completed Masumiyet Muzesi (The Museum of Innocence), a love story set in Istanbul which has been in the works for 10+ years.
Orhan Pamuk has nearly completed Masumiyet Muzesi (The Museum of Innocence), a love story set in Istanbul which has been in the works for 10+ years.
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 . . .
Bookmark for myself: there’s a new A.L. Kennedy short story — “Wasps” — in The New Yorker. (Via.)
“The Internet has gradually become an integral part of my creative process,” says Alison Bechdel. Sure, it’s distracting, but “[w]hat else would I be doing?”
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’ . . .