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EVENT: Talking Head David Bryne joins Elizabeth Diller, recipient of a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant, for a talk about new tendencies and relationships between architecture and music. Christopher Janney moderates. More information here.

Sunday’s Opinionist columns are meant to be snippets and ideas about New York life, but you’ll permit me a slight diversion from topic to discuss something also fundamental to New York life – reading. Get on any subway or bus at any time of day and you’ll find about twenty people with their noses in books. I’d be willing to bet my meager earnings that there are more people that count reading as a daily activity in this city than other major cities in America, and most of that on public transportation. So, as I start my work here at Gothamist as the literature contributor, bringing New Yorkers all the news they can read about reading, I thought I’d start by reviewing a book about, well, reading.

NY Councilman Alan Jennings gets a little bit of a respite as political scandal mongers are LOVING the news that one of NJ Governor James McGreevey's biggest donors hired a prostitute to thwart a witness in the federal case against him. Yes, it's totally confusing, and it doesn't get back to McGreevey, but the fact that real estate developer Charles Kushner, being investigated for tax fraud and illegal campaign contributions, hired a prostitute to seduce a witness and then mailed a tape of the act to the witness's wife is totally insane. In fact, Kushner hired the prostitute to seduce his brother-in-law and accountant, but only the brother-in-law did the deed - his sister's brother! The Post notes that it's "right out of a pulp crime novel," and that's totally spot-on. Gothamist says read up on this and then read some James M. Cain, Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler stat!

Court TV's extensive site dedicated to the Robert Blake trial.

California state regulators concluded that the physician improperly provided drugs to Courtney Love and Winona Ryder, The Smoking Gun has learned. In a blistering October 28 revocation order (which took effect December 6), the Medical Board of California cited Dr. Jules Lusman, 49, for numerous acts of unprofessional conduct, including the excessive prescription of narcotics. The medical board's 41-page decision notes that Lusman's behavior "might have been the subplot of a Raymond Chandler novel," one that focused on a doctor "catering to the demands of wealthy and/or famous drug seekers...the doctor in question working on a cash-and-carry basis."