Have you re-read the classic coming-of-age JD Salinger novel, Catcher in the Rye, lately? amNewYork takes a trip down memory lane, and 5th Ave, with a pair of Holden Caulfield-tinted glasses. Apparently people like the Central Park Conservancy historian get a ton of inquiries about the New York references in the novel. The most popular question, "Where do the ducks go in the winter?" Referring to the ducks in the Central Park pond that our......

Lauren Weedman's memoir, A Woman Trapped in a Woman's Body, isn't the standard memoir. It's not about getting addicted to drugs and going to rehab or about living on the streets and selling her body. It's about what happens when you start doing stand up for ten minutes every night at the dinner table when you're eight because you don't want your adopted parents to send you back to the adoption agency because you didn't......

I went to hear David Mitchell read from his new book the same day I cracked the spine and started reading it. I highly recommend doing this with your favorite authors, too – hearing them read their own work gives you a great sense of how it was written. But look, this is a city of writers, so there wasn’t a single writer in the room who could decide between hugging Mitchell and strangling him.......

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 thoughts on Candace Bushnell’s Trading Up, said thoughts taking the form of a memo from Elle Woods to Bushnell’s protagonist. (Seriously, read it. It’s crazy.) While it’s hard to say that Michi’s grasp of voice is absolutely secure—however......

Gothamist's thoughts on the mummy's tombs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art being exhibited without protective glass? Smelly! Even after thousands of years, we imagine the mummy stink still on the walls. No, really, it should be amazing. The Egyptian rooms at the Met are spectacular and worth a visit, and being able to see the gorgeous depictions of "rituals of libation and sustenance in the afterlife." Times reporter Glenn Collins notes in his article......