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A new feature for 2015, in ReadEasy we search the book stacks of the internet so you don’t have to. https://twitter.com/Miranda_July/status/563792956675481600 Hey! Buy tickets for our next show, No Return, here. It’s on March 9 at City Winery NYC, and will feature the talents of author and journalist Ben Yagoda, playwright Sarah Ruhl, poet A.E. […]
Read MoreThe Unspeakable and Other Subjects of Discussion by Meghan Daum Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014; 256pp In “Matricide” Meghan Daum describes, in black-glass prose, an extraordinary cycle of horror. It begins with the death of her grandmother, continues with the passing — within a year — of her mother, almost culminates in her own demise […]
Read MoreA new feature for 2015, ReadEasy is us foraging through the underbrush of the World Wide Web so you don’t have to. https://twitter.com/elizmccracken/status/561535143622344705 Katy Steinmetz on the power of words… Perhaps you read transgender teen Leelah Alcorn‘s suicide note recently. A horrifying jolt to many of its readers, Leelah’s call for a “fix” for society […]
Read MoreThe House of SpeakEasy will set the cat amongst the pigeons tonight at its second annual gala, Runnin’ Wild. Below, a video collage of our splenderific guests by way of introduction. Jim Dale is a Tony Award-winning actor, playwright, voice artist, and much more. He is the voice of the Harry Potter audiobooks in the […]
Read MoreA new feature for 2015, ReadEasy is your regular scrapbook of peculiarisms, thoughts, and entertainment from the World Wide Web. I love Twitter the most during events like #sotu — it was so lonely before this, listening in the void. — Susan Orlean (@susanorlean) January 21, 2015 Björk‘s Vulnicura was released on iTunes two months […]
Read MoreJim Dale is a showman of the old school; a true renaissance performer. He’s won a Tony, two Grammys, and four Drama Desk Awards. He’s received countless other nominations, including an Academy Award nod for the song “Georgy Girl,” later a huge hit for The Seekers, back in 1966. He’s been a pop star, a […]
Read MoreStephen Lang is an actor and a playwright and probably a very familiar face. You’re most likely one of the hundred million or so people who saw him as Colonel Miles Quaritch in Avatar (2009). You’re rarer, and luckier, if you saw him opposite Dustin Hoffman on Broadway in Death of a Salesman (1984) at […]
Read MoreThe Asylum: True Tales of Madness from a Life in Fashion by Simon Doonan NY: Blue Rider Press, 2013; 288pp Simon Doonan once called Kate Moss “a working-class slag from a crap town.” This got him into hotter water than he deserved given that it was hedged by a friendly subordinate “just like me.” All […]
Read MoreFor many people, R.L. Stine‘s is a name that will induce a spasm of delicious fear. Stine has been frightening children since the publication of his first shocker, Blind Date, in 1986. And it’s fear on an industrial scale: his books have sold over four hundred million copies, prompting the New York Times to speculate […]
Read MoreA new feature for 2015, ReadEasy is your regular round-up of literary oddities, reviews, and entertainment from the World Wide Web. I'm at that bit* in my new book where I've no idea what's going on or what I'm doing. *from around page 30 to page 250 — Ian Rankin (@Beathhigh) January 13, 2015 Ahead […]
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