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The Invention of Everything Else, by Samantha Hunt
Filled with wonder and a sense of infinite possibility, Samantha Hunt’s second novel, The Invention of Everything Else, celebrates the boundless human creativity suggested in its title. Each character...
View Articlea walking tour of NYC’s indie bookstores
This is courtesy of The Millions, who gave us the first incarnation of this tour in 2007. This updated, expanded map and itinerary is also a eulogy for the bookshops we’ve lost and those that won’t be...
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Symphony Space: Selected Shorts
NY-based (or visiting) writers: More short story love, this time with actors: Symphony Space presents “Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story,” in which “spellbinding short stories by...
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The Forbidden Thought: A review of Zone One, by Colson Whitehead
“If you weren’t concentrating on how to survive the next five minutes, you wouldn’t survive them.” Welcome to the world of Colson Whitehead’s Zone One (Doubleday, 2011), where a concrete barrier at...
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A Moveable… Writer’s Workshop
Lots of people read on the subway. But how about writing on the subway? The NY Writers Coalition recently offered many the chance to do just that–by transforming a subway car into a free writing...
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Dystopias Future and Past: Demolition Night, by Ross Barkan
Last year, Ross Barkan ran for a State Senate seat in New York. During a debate, he mentioned he was publishing a novel. I thought he, being a Brooklyn native, was kidding. Yet now that the election is...
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A Good Kind of Misery: An Interview with Kyle McCarthy
I first met Kyle McCarthy more than a dozen years ago, during one of the Columbia Publishing Course’s shameless networking events known as a “sherry hour.” We caught each other’s eyes, and in that...
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