November 2011
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Keith is out of jail
and now back to our regularly scheduled programming: food photos and book thoughts, with a side order of wide-eyed shock at what our country has become, leavened with hope and enthusiasm for a brighter future. Also cat photos.
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Keith update (a little after midnight 11/18)
Keith is still being held but will be out later tonight tomorrow morning we hope, though you shouldn’t worry because he’s probably sort of having fun even though jail is definitely not fun it could be a lot worse and he’s there with many other arrested OWS protesters.
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“You can call bullshit on so many cultural critics for observing their world at a...”
– The n+1 Research Collective is going to continue to post stuff about Ellen Willis, so be prepared! Take this opportunity to read the Introduction to No More Nice Girls for free, and if you’re hooked, join us in being completely obsessed with this book. Her work and the example she set have...
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Last night
We weren’t sure where they were stopping traffic so we parked near Foley Square and walked in the direction of the park. It was around 1:45 and the streets were deserted but we could hear a chopper overhead and kids on bikes were swooping past us, headed in the same direction we were. On Broadway we joined a small crowd of people on the sidewalk. Cops in riot gear, helmets and shields,...
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housingworksbookstore:
Also, come to our party on Monday, November 28 for Emily Books. Eileen is reading and she is amazing and I am sometimes tempted to have Eileen Myles read at every single event I do. And there is a free open bar for the first hour, and raffle prizes.
Um, yes, also come to this!!!!!
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Book club meeting tomorrow night! →
emilybooks:
I’m bringing homemade cookies, just sayin’. You only have to bring yourself.
Cookies Ruth Made That I Plan To Love. McNally Jackson (Prince + Mulberry), 5:30 — be there! If you can’t make it that early, still come to the reading after: Eileen Myles and Dennis Cooper.
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“When we tell the working-class story, we tell it straight, white, and male. We...”
– Sady Doyle, Standing in the Goods (for Emily Books)
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“Becoming a writer, in Inferno, does not mean becoming less of an outsider. It...”
– Emily Books: Standing in the Goods by Sady Doyle
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Grocery update
Since that post I have bought: sambal oelek, catfood and ginger at the Sunac near the Metropolitan G (what are the components of its signature not-unpleasant smell?), some meat at Greene Grape Provisions (cramped and pricey), catfood at the bodega, and bread and olives and coffee and a very small amount of cheese at We Are Not Allowed To Shop There. I also went to the farmer’s market for...
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“Those “bad” decisions weren’t the self-indulgent decisions of a delusional...”
– Emily Books: Style Like Eileen Myles by Riese
“Although death felt remarkably possible at that moment, I didn’t think “my life...”
– Emily Books: Style Like Eileen Myles by Riese
so so good you guys
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“Eileen Myles, like some other women I know who grew up not understanding why...”
– Emily Books: Style Like Eileen Myles by Riese
some things you might as well know up front about the Emily Books November pick
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“I don’t think there’s anything wrong with working toward a feminism that...”
– Emily Books: Are We Sisters Under the Skin Yet? by Lauretta Charlton
The final Willis post, about maybe the trickiest essay in No More Nice Girls. 