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Bryant Park Reading Room: Colum McCann, Joseph O’Neill, Alice Mattison and Jonathan Ames on Writing About New York
For a blissfully sunny lunch hour on July 8th, the Bryant Park Reading Room brought together four talented authors and a moderator who share one great passion: the city of New York. Thomas Beller, author of several books and founder of the website Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood, moderated the conversation between Jonathan Ames, author of The Double... »
Twilight Star Robert Pattinson Hit by Taxi Outside Strand Bookstore
Ok, so I haven’t had a celebrity posting in awhile. This one was just too good to pass up– combining a star from a film based on one of publishing’s biggest success stories with the mecca of Manhattan used bookstores (it also took place down the street from my office in the Flatiron building.)... »
From Nagasaki to Afghanistan: Kamila Shamsie’s “Burnt Shadows”
Maybe it’s because I spent a good part of my college years studying trauma and how people experience and record it; maybe because World War II and its fallout—both figurative and literal—is a topic I find myself drawn to again and again (my thesis was based on an oral history project I conducted that... »
Land of Refuge, Land of Exile: French Writers & Artists in the U.S. During the Occupation Years
“When France fell to the Germans in 1940, a number of French writers, intellectuals and artists fled France and found refuge in the U.S. mostly in New York and on the East Coast. Some worked for the U.S. government, some militated for Free France, most continued their creative work. Many of the French were... »