As I was pawing through the various books in the second hand bookstore near my home, the title "The Lampshade" on the spine of the book jumped out at me. Piquing my curiosity, I pulled it from the books knowing what I suspected the book to be about floating somewhere in the back of my mind. You ...
Gojiro is a triumph of storytelling that firmly established itself as one of the preeminent -- and funniest -- novels of the post-nuclear era.Its star, of course, is Gojiro -- the giant lizard -- made famous by a wildly successful cycle of B-movies and now come to exuberant literary life. Once a ...
In the 1970s, Frank Lucas was the king of the Harlem drug trade, bringing in over a million dollars a day. So many heroin addicts were buying from him on 116th Street that he claimed the Transit Authority changed the bus routes to avoid them. He lived a glamorous life, hobnobbing with athletes, m...
SHEILA BROOKS SAID, FINALLY.Until then they’d just been standing, mute, in the middle of the drafty ballroom, as if waiting for a spectral orchestra to strike up an angular, tonelessly modern waltz.“Yes,” was all Komodo could say, as stiff as Greenland. Face-to-face with her in that grandiose, ca...
section and the editor felt it “had nothing to do with culture.” What’s culture then, I yelled, “spending fifty dollars to see Mark Morris dance around?” This exchange did not do wonders for our relationship. From New York magazine 2005. The usual Saturday afternoon merchants lined the sidewalk a...