Posted Keep Your Cool, Ms. Kakutani to Gothamist
Smelling salts! Icy towels! The heat has gone to Michiko Kakutani’s head! Her review of Benjamin Kunkel’s Indecision is written in Holden Caulfield’s voice. Gothamist can’t remember such a wacky review since she favored us with her...
Posted Mommy Dearest to Gothamist
So, it’s August and your shrink has split. Eleven months of listening to you has earned her a few weeks of rest, no? You, unfortunately, don’t get a break from your issues. All we have to...
Posted Black and White Stars of Page and Screen to Gothamist
If March of the Penguins failed to satisfy your appetite for adorable penguin action, march yourself right over to the bookstore and check out And Tango Makes Three. Gothamist must admit that we could not resist judging...
Posted Books at the Pier to Gothamist
An editorial in today’s Times reminds us that prison isn’t just a plot twist in the stories of powerful people like Martha Stewart and Judith Miller; a lot of people spend a lot of time there, and...
Posted Read This Book: Them, by Francine du Plessix Gray to Gothamist
If you suffer from a nasty magazine addiction as we do, you will understand our initial attraction to Francine du Plessix Gray’s memoir, Them: her stepfather was Alexander Liberman, the magazine genius who served as editorial director...