"If Paris is France.. Coney Island is the world"
The full quote, pilfered from a faded mural on Coney Island’s beachside boardwalk, is: “If Paris is France, Coney Island, …
Category Archives: books
One Day
Some books we read because we know they’re good for us. For example, this seems to be my year of …
Take a load off…
Fanny is one of the first discoveries I made in my new neighbourhood – I can find a $5 happy …
A house on the Heights
“I live in Brooklyn. By choice.” So wrote Truman Capote in his essay A House On The Heights, paying tribute …
Infinite quest
Those of you who are converts to David Foster Wallace’s behemoth opus Infinite Jest – which I wrote about earlier …
Text, mugs, rock ‘n’ roll
This morning’s mission was to trot westward on Houston, into Soho to the Housing Works Bookshop Cafe. The store is …
The tangled web we weave
Is there anything more amusing than reading old books, in which technology we take for granted today was barely embyronic? …
Tempting fête
1 x bag chocolate fudge, 1 x bag rocky road, and 1 x bag melted Russian caramels:$10 Home-made pavlova:$5 Assorted …
One from the Archive
Back in Brizvegas, the traditional Boundary beers later gave way to a Thursday night tipple at Archive across the road. …
Dance while you can
Sad news this week, as Christopher Hitchens has written in detail for the first time about his cancer: “In whatever …
