How I Learned My Lesson: A Blog
Some people who read this blog are surprised that I am a fan of professional sports: Yankees (not Mets), Giants (not Jets), Knicks (not Nets). It’s both a civic pride thing and something I figured a real writer has to embrace because of all that great sports writing… Gay Talese, Mailer, etc. I suppose I [...]
Posted on January 30th, 2012 in New York
In which news of the end of the Holiday Cocktail Lounge and Bleecker Bobs calls for an excerpt from the forthcoming memoir and much digging through the archives for Polaroids of a younger, scrawnier, hungrier New York writer… The irony of being a long time New Yorker is that we are both obsessed with the [...]
Posted on January 25th, 2012 in Music
Excerpt: In which an Andrew W.K. related news bite on Pitchfork becomes a Proust cookie, taking me back to the days of print rock gossip, my first gray hair, and a reckoning with the end of the teenage dream (whatever happened to the teenage dream anyway?). There was a time when I wrote a MONTHLY [...]
Posted on January 21st, 2012 in Diary
On taking a very short break from writing and discerning pizza consumption. The notion of when a New Yorker becomes a New Yorker is discussed. So is Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan.
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