The Smart Set is a weekly feature, compiled by Lauren Cerand, that appears Mondays 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 submit details to lauren@maudnewton.com. MONDAY, 3.28: Perhaps aiming to give the Upper West Side a little much-needed edge, Columbia: A . . .
Sorry about the tumbleweeds, everybody. I’ll spare you the details of my latest family emergency, but the upshot is that my grandfather — my last surviving grandparent — has landed in the hospital with an uncertain prognosis. Next Monday’s excuse: a plague of locusts! Please stay tuned. Book news will follow.
This post was written by Friday blogger Annie Reid. That’s all for me. It’s been a helluva week, and I can’t wait to go drink heavily celebrate the holiday weekend. I’m going on a little roadtrip myself. I’m promised my fellow travellers four full hours of bitching. They can’t wait. Maud was last seen hopping about in a field of . . .
This book reaction was written by Friday blogger Annie Reid. I’ve just started reading the new Amy Hempel, The Dog of the Marriage, and although I’m only a few stories in, already I think I can say: this is a magnificent book. These are short stories that seem like poems, with each new line not adding more description, necessarily, . . .
This post was written by Friday blogger Annie Reid. For those of you who missed Fingersmith, Affinity, or Tipping the Velvet, Sarah Waters is just a touch like Dickens. Except with hot, lesbian sex. Here she delights the Independent. Giant dildos, a cat named Tink and her next book all make an appearance.