Jonathan Lethem is the best-selling author of Gun with Occasional Music, Motherless Brooklyn, and Fortress of Solitude. He has recently re-located from his home in Brooklyn to Southern California to teach fiction at Pomona College. Rachel Elizabeth Jones joins him on campus to discuss his two latest novels, his trajectories to California, what “hipster” actually [...]
Category Archives: Interviews
Watch: Peter Straub
June 16, 2011 – 3:58 pm
The Dossier Readings #2 with novelist Peter Straub. Bestselling author Peter Straub (Ghost Story, Koko, Lost Boy, Lost Girl, A Dark Matter) reads from the work of the late Donald Harington, an Arkansas-born novelist best known for his many novels that take place in a fictional Ozark hamlet known as Stay More, AR. This reading [...]
Librarians Rule
March 5, 2011 – 4:08 pm
In honor of Women’s History Month, each March, the librarians of the New York Public Library present a month-long series of blog posts highlighting the amazing women they’ve discovered through the print and online resources of NYPL. They have reading lists that include topics such as “Women, Creativity & Madness”, interviews with Riot Grrls, discussions [...]
Adam Novy
December 13, 2010 – 1:16 pm
Adam Novy’s The Avian Gospels is published in two pocket-sized maroon volumes made to mimic the Bible, complete with red pleather covers and gilt-gold edged paper. A narrative masterpiece with a healthy dose of social commentary on politics, class systems and war, the visual imagery in The Avian Gospels is filled with elaborate death scenes, [...]
Sloane Crosley
June 14, 2010 – 6:44 am
Sloane Crosley is a super-hero of sorts; book publicist by day and best-selling author by night. For her day job, Sloane works at Vintage Books as the publicist for big dogs like Joan Didion, Toni Morrison, Jay McInerney, and Dave Eggers. In her free time, she wrote her own book I Was Told There’d Be [...]
Glass & Parwaz Playhouse
May 10, 2010 – 11:45 am
Cast and Crew of Parwaz Playhouse’s debut production, Glass. New Yorkers often forget that the theater is a treasure. For when you live amongst the fixed twinkle of Broadway, the art of mimicking life can become as repetitive as a bodega or a yellow taxi. But the theater is not something that we should take [...]
