Category Archives: Books

Harmony Korine Collected Fanzines

Two years ago I layed gloved hands upon a copy of Harmony Korine’s Humor zine at the special collections library. This was one of several limited edition fanzines Korine made (sometimes in collaboration with Mark Gonzales) during the 90s, through the Alleged Gallery and Andrea Rosen Gallery in New York. On November 18th, the gloves [...]

Ben Greenman’s Postcard Project

Brooklyn-based New Yorker editor Ben Greenman is looking for help with his new “highly fancy limited edition publication.” The book, Correspondences, is a collection of short stories written in epistolary form, and includes an unfinished story called “What He’s Poised to Do” that intentionally leaves gaps in the narrative.
“The Man is staying in a hotel. [...]

‘Summer Reading’ at Capricious

Capricious is legendary for its publishing prowess: From Capricious Magazine, to Girls Like Us and Can’t Be Famous magazines, they’ve created a publishing mini-empire. Now they’ve transformed their gallery-fronted office space at 103 Broadway (between Bedford and Berry) in Williamsburg into a sun-drenched library, with an exhibition called “Summer Reading.” On view until September 21st, [...]

New York Tyrant

Sure, Granta’s been around a while, and The Paris Review is fine and well. But what about when you want to read something new? I mean, really new. So new that you’ve never heard of its contributors, and aren’t sure how to pronounce their names? There are a lot of small literary journals out there, [...]

Peter Sutherland at Family

New York native Peter Sutherland’s photography should be well-known to a lot of you out there, so if you happen to be in L.A in the next 24 hours, check out his book launch at Family (probably the best bookstore ever), tomorrow at 7:30. Sutherland will be showing slides and video footage of the making [...]