Photo: Jack Lenk

The chilly expanse of pavement in front of the Union Square Barnes & Noble megastore was still empty last Tuesday at 6 PM. The tall security guard inside was unaware that the author Lisa Dierbeck was supposed to be reading in...

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The crusade against Four Loko is wrong. We have every right to drink a deranged caffeinated alcohol cocktail if we want to. It is potent but it does not kill people, as the sensational news stories will have...

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The bespectacled man walked through the crowd holding a silver record player to his chest. He passed rows of fanatic buyers as they flipped through boxes of vinyl records, searching for that rare Beatles or that last Rolling Stones needed...

The schooner navigated by a man that had been alone at sea for 1152 days circled around Pier 81 yesterday afternoon as it prepared to dock for his return. A crowd of family and friends were silent as the battered boat approached and they caught sight of Reid Stowe...

What does a Joycean look like? The best possible answer could have been could witnessed yesterday morning at 2 AM when a marathon seven-hour Bloomsday event finally ended at the Symphony Space Arts Center on the Upper West Side.

Bloomsday is a celebratory date for the literary world, an annual...

This Saturday brings an end to a privileged musical experience: legendary singer-songwriter Judy Collins' intimate season performances at the Cafe Carlyle, a famed uptown supper club that seems frozen in the 1930's.

For the past month Collins has been holding weekly court at the posh club where she performs on...

Norman Mailer, a writer once known for his towering ego, enjoyed the release of an equally over-sized book last Friday. Fans of Mailer gathered in the sleek reading room of the Taschen bookstore in Soho to commemorate the posthumous release, "Moonfire: The Epic Journey of Apollo 11," a massive...

Last night New Yorkers celebrated the 50th anniversary of a singular piece of American literature, Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird. The novel that tells the iconic story of a moral lawyer, his two children, and his courageous quest to defend an innocent black man in the depression era South....