February 2012
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"Upstairs at the Square: Joseph Arthur + Edward... →
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Event Coordinator and Literary Publicist Lauren... →
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Tonight, please join us for an evening (free, and... →
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“the most perceptive, elegantly written and hilarious novels of our era.”
– Francine Prose on Edward St. Aubyn in the New York Times. Meet St. Aubyn this Wednesday (with Joseph Arthur), 2/15, “Upstairs at the Square.” 7pm, free.
I've Been Reading Lately, the Annex: Going smash →
“Uncle Vlad,” as Nancy called him, had helped to assassinate Rasputin, lending his Imperial revolver to Prince Yusopov for what was supposed to be the final kill, but turned out to be only the middle stage between poisoning the energetic priest with arsenic and drowning him in the Neva. Despite…
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January 2012
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Edward St. Aubyn and Joseph Arthur, "Upstairs at... →
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"Upstairs at the Square" returns, on Thursday,... →
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“Suzzy Roche is mostly known as the youngest member of the three-sister band The...”
– Lorrie Moore in the New York Review of Books, January 10.
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October 2011
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Ann Beattie and Markéta Irglová, "Upstairs at the... →
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“Being a writer became synonymous, for me, with New York City (which was...”
– Ann Beattie, Just Going Out (via nuitnuageuse)
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Ann Beattie, The Art of the Interview # 209 - The... →
irunfrombears:
I love skimming interviews and rarely do I read the entire thing. I am still making my way through the Spring issue of The Paris Review (currently halfway through Joshua Cohen’s short story), but I wanted to write up Ann Beattie’s interview so I could remember it. It’s one of the only ones I’ve read in its entirety.
On Fiction:
It took me years and years to realize a very...
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i have found the perfect man
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unfortunately he is fictional.
okay no but really. Ann Beattie’s Walks with Men is a little ~100-page Scribner deal that came out last year, and I picked it up for a few dollars at the Strand at some point last semester. I finished it within the day, and then read it again, and I read it every month or so now because it is beautiful, but I have to stop at page 66 because after...
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“Love, in its shortest form, becomes a word.”
– Ann Beattie (via roarinree)
September 2011
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“Spanning 32 years, 48 stories, and every piece of fiction Beattie ever published...”
– The Boomers’ Roadmap: How Ann Beattie has helped a generation understand itself, at Slate. Ann Beattie will be appear “Upstairs at the Square” to discuss the paperback edition of the New Yorker Stories, with Marketa Irglova (Anar), on October 13, 7pm.
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Join us tonight, "Upstairs at the Square"
We’re delighted to debut our sixth season with guests Christopher Bollen (Lightning People) and Eleanor Friedberger (Last Summer) discuss and perform their work, in conversation with host, cultural journalist Katherine Lanpher, at Barnes & Noble, Union Square, 7pm, free (online soon after).
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T MAGAZINE: Asked & Answered | Christopher Bollen →
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Largehearted Boy Cross-Media Cultural Exchange... →
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“Many people have asked me about the title of the book, which stems from the...”
– Christopher Bollen on the origin of Lightning People, in Artforum
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“Do not play or even sign up for online backgammon.”
– Christopher Bollen’s rules for aspiring writers, in the new issue of Fantastic Man
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“I didn’t want to write a book about young, fresh, hopeful people here. I...”
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Fall Shows: Bollen & Friedberger, Meloy & Ellis,... →
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Eleanor Friedberger played MusicFestNW w/ The... →
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“this fall they’re bringing some amazing names to their “Upstairs in...”
– http://gothamist.com/2011/09/12/reason_891_to_save_remaining_barnes.php
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