It's a freak occurrence of publishing genius: Sarah Palin's book "Going Rogue" will be released the same day as V. Nabokov's "The Original of Laura." Who's capitalizing on such a once-in-a-lifetime event? Unnameable Books in Prospect Heights. They encourage you to come dress as your favorite character tonight at their midnight release party. Be there, or be Levized.

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Is there such a thing as a better nervous breakdown? Absolutely according to TheNervousBreakdown.com founder Brad Listi. The online literary collective launched a bigger, better Breakdown yesterday with its new site expansion. We found out from Listi about all TNB’s new bells and whistles and just what literary lovers can expect from the new site after, as he put it, lunatics take over the asylum and do a little redecorating.

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This morning's Washington Post examines the horrifying rash of "drive-by porning" incidents that are plaguing that city's subways, highways and even the airplanes flying overhead. And while most Washingtonians seem to respond prudishly and passive aggressively to the public porn (what New Yorker wouldn't realize that there is no better time to mug someone than while he is watching Cock Smokers 10 on the 4 train?), bartender Sandi Benedetti knows exactly how a situation like this should be handled.

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Over at NPR, Carrie Brownstein interviews Thurston Moore. It happened over email, but it's still totally awesome. Moore, who lives in Northampton, Mass. most of the time, locked it up for me with this exchange:

CARRIE BROWNSTEIN: How does living outside of New York City help you to understand and appreciate it?

THURSTON MOORE: It has proven that I'm really bored not being in the city -- though I do like the colors, I guess.

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They’re still creepy and they’re still kooky. The upcoming Addams Family musical shared backstage interviews and a cast photo with Vanity Fair, proving that the actors will stay true to the undead hilarity of Charles Addams’s original New Yorker cartoons.

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If you had to sum up Playgirl’s plan for Levi Johnston’s pending photo shoot in one word, it would be cheap. Two words? Cheap and classy—or at least that’s what the magazine editors would have you believe. But the cost of class was just too high for the legendary skin mag—plans to shoot Bristol Palin’s baby daddy at the Hotel on Rivington penthouse this Friday were dashed when, as The Post reported, the magazine couldn’t cough up the cash for the space. Fortunately for Johnston, a bevy of New York’s sexiest minds were glad to offer advice on extending his 15 minutes of fame.

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To celebrate its exhibition of The Red Book, C.G. Jung's vividly-illustrated text chronicling his journeys into the unconscious, the Rubin Museum of Art has been hosting a wonderfully eclectic discussion series in which a noted guest and a psychoanalyst talk about a section of the book. Just about all the speakers are fabulous, but Saturday's felt particularly equipped to discuss Jung's tripped-out images: Charlie Kaufman.

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On Friday we reported about a male erotic massage demonstration in the windows of The Chelsea Blue we knew would surely draw a crowd. Well we were right—though it doesn’t take a genius to figure out nearly naked men massaging each other in a store front might catch an eye or two. Not only did the event attract the attention of passersby, but also that of the boys in blue, who shut down the man-on-man masseuse show!

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In a move sure to appeal to wacky and inexplicably wealthy uptowners and other people who might be characters in the irritatingly offbeat world that corduroy-clad director Wes Anderson has created, Bergdorf Goodman will feature sets from the director's forthcoming film The Fantastic Mr. Fox in its windows beginning tomorrow night. In a perfect world, the farmers of the outer boroughs would take up the role of the farmers in the story and go after Fox and his obnoxious family. Here's hoping.

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Dia Art Foundation's director, Philippe Vergne, announced today that Dia would construct a new space in Chelsea and finally have a more visible NYC presence. The new site in West Chelsea will be located at 545 W. 22nd Street. The address is currently the location of the large, versatile Pace Wildenstein space. Galleries such as D'Amelio Terras are across the street. This is the first time in the organization's 35 year history that it has elected to construct a new building.

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