Lauren posted two weeks’ worth of events last Monday, so, in lieu of a new Smart Set, here are a couple of things I’m up to in the next month and a half. Readings from New Work: On April 15, I and my friends Lizzie Skurnick and Kate Christensen are doing short readings from new work at Housing Works. I’ll . . .
Saïd Sayrafiezadeh discusses his memoir, When Skateboards Will Be Free, and growing up as a “little revolutionary” in the Socialist Workers Party.
Laura Miller admires Zoë Heller’s The Believers, but says the sections on faith’s ecstasies have the air of ethnography.
“I’m called the father of the modern graphic novel. If that’s true, I want a blood test.” — Art Spiegelman
As UCLA acquires Huxley’s archives, Michael Orthofer and Robert McCrum call for a decent biography of the writer.