New York

Smoke and Mirrors: A Review of Jonathan Lethem's 'Chronic City'

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Chronic City (marijuana arrests)

My review of Jonathan Lethem's 2009 novel in Bookforum:

Posted on October 24th, 2009

The death of Osama Bin Laden: Celebrations at Ground Zero (2011)

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society
OBL celebration

 Some time around 10.30pm I was sitting over dinner at a friend's place on the Upper West Side. I got a new phone yesterday, and was (rudely) fooling around with it under the table. That was when I saw a tweet saying that Osama bin Laden was dead. When I told my friends, they assumed I was joking.

Posted on May 2nd, 2011

Flying Close to the Sun (2011)

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Townhouse explosion
Dustin Hoffman
Cathy Wilkerson
FBI wanted posters

 Flying Close to the Sun: My Life and Times as a Weatherman : Cathy Wilkerson

[UK: Seven Stories Press January 2011]

Posted on January 24th, 2011

Twice Upon a Time: Reflections on Moondog (2009)

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arts
Moondog

 

Twice Upon a Time: listening to New York

 

Machine were mice and men were lions

Once upon a time

But now that it’s the opposite

Posted on August 12th, 2009

Reading March 26th NYC

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Hari Kunzru and Porochista Khakpour
March 26, 2009 | New York City
Thursday, 7:00 pm

Khakpour reads from her debut, Sons and Other Flammable Objects
Kunzru reads from his latest, My Revolutions.

@ The Asian American Writers' Workshop
16 West 32nd Street, 10th Floor
(btwn Broadway & 5th Avenue)

Posted on February 9th, 2009
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