As pop musicians from Keith Richards to Prodigy have published their life stories in the last few years, the timing couldn’t be better for Le Freak, the recently released autobiography of bajillion-selling guitarist/producer Nile Rodgers. Considering that his career encompasses both a stint in the Apollo Theater’s house band and compositions that have inspired countless hip-hop samples, Rodgers may well be considered the bridge between the Rolling Stones and Mobb Deep
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Book Review: Luminous Airplanes by Paul La Farge
This journey for a father figure is a skillful and enjoyable read...
November 29,2011
OT Downtown: Anthony Pappalardo's Playlist for His Generation
A New Hampshire Ex-Pat Charts the Cultural Shifts Born and Bred in Downtown Manhattan
November 10,2011
Our Town: The Truth About Sybil
The Park Avenue Multiple Personality Saga Unfurls on the Page
November 8,2011
Bookstores with Nooks, Not a Nook
Three mom-and-pop bookshops remain comfortably old-fashioned
August 18,2011
There’s a word in Danish that doesn’t translate to English. Google Translate will tell you that “hygge” means “cozy” or “coziness,” but it really means much more than that. Hygge, pronounced “hue-gah,” is the happy, satisfied laziness you feel when it’s raining outside and you’re curled up on the couch. It’s the feeling of being at home—of being comfortable—that all humans crave.
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Book Review: Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day
Emilia Barrosse reviews Ben Loory's new story collection
August 12,2011
Pinpointing precisely all of the things that are wrong with Ben Loory’s collection of short stories is difficult, but a reader’s experience with the collection, Stories for Nighttime and Some For the Day, can be summed up thusly: the book leaves you with sore eyes. Not because the language is particularly lush or dense, but because of the number of times Loory’s stories inspire eye rolls of disappointment and desperation.
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Summer of Cash
Rosanne Cash has spent the year revisiting her past, and now she’s ready for the next chapter
August 8,2011
Any discussion of Rosanne Cash these days must include some reference to her lively, busy Twitter page, which details everything from the new shoes she bought to the things she worries about at three in the morning. This being Cash, however, her 3 a.m. fears aren’t the usual insomniac’s. Instead of mortality, she wonders on Twitter “What if there’s a sprinkler & it goes off when I’m sleeping & my red hair color gets on the pillow & someone thinks it’s blood.” Cash saves her dark nights of the soul for her music.
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Submitting But Not Surrendering
Rayyan Al-Shawaf reviews The Submission
August 3,2011
Amy Waldman, a Brooklyn resident and former New York Times reporter now embarking on a literary career, has written a novel about Islams place in America. But The Submission may surprise you, for in generating narrative momentum, Waldman doesnt rely on the real yet receding threat of terrorism
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Slicing Through NY
The Slice Harvester is looking for more than just the perfect New York pizza
July 20,2011The Age of Mystery
Author Gregory Murphy takes on Edith Whartonera New York City in his new novel
July 20,2011
THE MILIEU OF early-20thcentury New York City remains almost exclusively the purview of Edith Wharton, and any author who dares to set their novels in the same time period will suffer in the comparison. To his credit, Gregory Murphy isn t as interested in the manners and moir%u9CE0of the time as Wharton was.
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