Photo by John Lancaster
Photographer John Lancaster documented The Poetry Brothel's Film Noir-themed event at the Back Room April 15th. Produced by The Poetry Society of New York, the Brothel is the brainchild of Stephanie Berger (The Madame) and Nicholas Adamski (a.k.a. Tennessee Pink, pictured above left). Click the image to view the gallery.
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Comic and "Agorafabulous!" author Sara Benincasa, giving her judgement, with Taylor Negron, right.
Sara Benincasa, center, author of Agorafabulous!: Dispatches from My Bedroom, along with playwright and comedian Taylor Negron, right, were pitch perfect as snarky judges for the 6th Anniversary edition of Literary Death Match, a reading event founded by Todd Zuniga - currently on a world tour - at The Back Room earlier this month. Children's author Jon Scieszka rounded out the judging corps, and readers included Trip City author and illustrator Dean Haspiel, God of Animals author Aryn Kyle, National Book Critics Circle Award winner Darin Strauss and Fordham Professor Kim Dana Kupperman. Click the photo to view gallery.
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Mike Doughty
+YBNY book critic and Soul Coughing devotee Peter Milne Greiner reviews frontman Mike Doughty's memoir on addiction, recovery and the road between, out this week on De Capo Press. Doughty "recreates downtown Manhattan in his formative moment," the early 1990s. ...
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Emmy-nominated reporter Lauren DeFranco muses about her recent trip to Arizona, and what it means to be a New Yorker. Writes DeFranco, "I wanted to punch the next person who waved 'hi' to me on
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+"Upper East Side Democrats cheered and drank their Manischewitz, when Rick Perry had his big 'oops moment,'" writes the Emmy-nominated, former Channel 7 Eyewitness News Reporter Lauren DeFranco. DeFranco makes her YBNY debut with a holiday-tinged
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