“Y’all know the one thing grabs folks’ attention better than gettin’ some is not gettin’ any!” proclaims the web site for Kathryn Blume’s one-woman play, “The Boycott.” “So come on everyone, let’s cross our legs and save that world!” More »
“All The Sad Young Literary Men” is the first novel from Keith Gessen, the editor-in-chief of the influential young journal, n+1. Gessen and his co-founders went to Harvard together, just like some of the characters in the novel, but unlike their farcical counterparts they didn’t mess up their lives tragi-comically because of any neo-Marxist or Zionist pretensions. The New York Times recently profiled n+1 as the flagship publication of a new school of literary criticism, making Gessen and his friends — on whom we suspect “All The Sad Young Literary Men” was based — the Sharks to Dave Eggers’ Jets at the comparably hip journal McSweeney’s. More »
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