Book news and gossip.
In what may come to be known as the first nice column we have ever written, the Nightstand will now…
What people are celebrating everywhere else.
In 1925, the year she would write Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf was in two places at once: at the threshold…
Out and about with Chaka Kwan.
REALNETWORKS laid off 15 percent of its workers last Friday. Monday morning we logged on to fuckedcompany.com, the New York-based…
Book news and gossip.
Let’s say you’re George Plimpton. How the transformation occurred, exactly, doesn’t matter. Gregor Samsa in The Metamorphosis became an insect;…
Matt Briggs and his strange stories.
Taking Loads, Plugging Stuff
A friend of this column rightly points out that we have written about Dave Eggers before (The Nightstand, “Supernova,” Aug….
Enjoy life: eat out more often!
David Shields’ minor work shows major ego.
Joan Didion on terrorism and the sudden irrelevance of everything else.
ONE MONTH TO THE DAY after Sept. 11—the day everyone’s still talking about—classes are cancelled at the University of Washington….
THE CENTER OF gay things to come couldn’t be better situated: two blocks up from one boy bar, just around…
A review of the reviews of The Autograph Man.
You are the age you are now but in 1937. There is no television, of course, which accounts for something—as…
Last week, the Nightstand received an obscure letter written with fervor and a typewriter. While we’re not so big on…
Book news and gossip.
