Chris Lehmann’s D.C. Observer column debuts this week with “The Pleasurers of the President,” a scathing attack on the “louche pundit hubris” of the D.C. press corps following the U.S. attorney firings. While “dogged investigators at online journalism outlets such as Talking Points Memo’s TPMmuckraker.com have done great work documenting the D.O.J.’s thuggish management of its appointed corps of attorneys,” . . .
“Williamsburg” becomes an adjective, and in Greenpoint even the graffiti has gentrified. (Thanks, Dana.)
Dwight Garner is looking for your favorite quotes from recent novels.
The Branding and Freedom in the Market Economy conversation between Colson Whitehead and Calvin Baker happens this Friday, at Lolita, at 7 p.m. In anticipation of the event, here’s an excerpt from Whitehead’s Apex Hides the Hurt. He came up with the names. They were good times. He came up with the names and like any good parent he knocked . . .
Between PEN World Voices and Nextbook’s What’s He Doing Here? (on Jesus in Jewish Culture), the end of April is going to be busy.