Please Take Me Off the Guest List is the latest in a series of collaborations between Brooklyn writer, bartender, and musician Zack Lipez, Yeah Yeah Yeahs guitarist Nick Zinner, and book designer Stacy Wakefield. The book’s title is a more benevolent plea than the one made by Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain in the title of their seminal oral history of New York’s 1970s punk scene: Please Kill Me. This discrepancy isn’t surprising. The city’s a different place these days. The cokeheads are doing yoga, the punk kids shop at Ikea, the bars are blissfully free of smoke, and bad neighborhoods are harder to come by. But the joyfully decrepit, the unsanitary, the backwaters of a spit-shined New York are still here, unrelenting and proud, regretful and fucked up, still waiting for that special someone.
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The Rest Is Literature
A review of The Private Lives of Trees by Alejandro Zambra
Publication of Alejandro Zambra’s first novel, Bonsai, was hailed by many as the end of an era in Chilean literature as well as the beginning of a new one. Continue reading "The Rest Is Literature"…