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participating in this tomorrow.

housingworksbookstore:

Updated list of readers below for tomorrow’s reading of Bartleby, the Scrivener at the public atrium at 60 Wall Street. The reading is free and open to all; we’ll have portions of the text available for walk-up readers. Attendees are encouraged to bring donations for OWS; according to Haywood Carey of our panel on Monday, duct tape and blankets are currently needed.

• Nitsuh Abebe, New York magazine
• Jami Attenberg, The Melting Season
• Amanda Bullock, your Housing Works blogger
• Ryan Chapman, FSG
• Joshua Cohen, A Heaven of Others
• Allison Devers, Writers’ Houses
• Stephen Elliott, The Adderall Diaries
• Rachel Fershleiser, Bookish
• Molly Fischer, journalist
• David Goodwillie, American Subversive
• Michele Hardesty, People’s Library
• Michelle Legro, editor, Lapham’s Quarterly
• Sam MacLaughlin, McNally Jackson Books
• Maureen Miller, editor, Rap Genius
• Eileen Myles, Inferno
• Maud Newton, When the Flock Changed
• Tom Roberge, New Directions
• Sarah Sarai
• Erich Strom
• Brendan Sullivan, Text, Drugs, & Rock ‘N’ Roll
• Adam Wilson, Flatscreen
• James Yeh, editor, Gigantic
• Daniel Zilio

Thank you to Housing Works Bookstore Cafe, McNally Jackson Books, and Justin Taylor for organizing; and to the People’s Library at Occupy Wall Street and to Melville House, publisher of the Art of the Novella edition of Bartleby, the Scrivener, for their support.

(via mcnallyjackson)

roomie alison kuo writes of my “excellent Chinese bike schlepping form” in her funny new (and buzz-receiving) blog, accidentalchinesehipsters:

Recently I caught my dear roommate James Yeh en route to the laundry mat in a moment of excellent Chinese bike schlepping form. James is the ultimate Azn American partner in crime, a self proclaimed “Brooklyn man” and successful indie writer, he was raised in South Carolina by Taiwanese immigrant parents and makes a tasty pork chop with scallions. You can read his blog here.

I’ll always remember the week James’s mom came to stay. She folded the unruly mess of plastic bags in our apartment into small bundles, and cooked about 20lbs of meat for him, meanwhile filling the air with Chinese parent love anxiety. In asides, she made slightly critical jokes and giggled. She reminded James to do things a lot. One night in an act of solidarity we escaped a tutorial on asparagus preparation to drink beer (at a Brooklyn Brewery event to which J had a press invite, no less), drunkenly buy corn starch at an upscale Bedford Ave deli, and return home in a much nicer mood to a dinner patiently waiting for us.

I interviewed Tao Lin for Vice →

Among the things discussed: Tao Lin’s new novel Richard Yates, Tao Lin’s less new novella Shoplifting from American Apparel, imitators, Haley Joel Osment at a grocery store, AOL Instant Messenger vs. Gchat, and why Philip Roth is funny in a way Dave Eggers is not.

I wrote something about David Markson for the Faster Times Indie Books →

my roommate ben and i filmed a short promotional video for zachary german’s forthcoming novel eat when you get sad

readers by author.

cosmopsis:

designage:

this is some kind of wonderful:

Margaret Atwood Women whose favorite color is hunter green.

William Faulkner People who are good at crosswords.

Cormac McCarthy Men who don’t eat cream cheese.

Mark Twain Liars.

Nicole Krauss Girls who intern at Nylon but end up moving back to the Midwest for their real job.

Anne Rice People who don’t use conditioner in their hair.

ones i also liked:

Toni Morrison

Female high-school English professors who only have an undergraduate degree.

Virginia Woolf

Female high-school French teachers who have their master’s degree.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Men who can’t lie but will instead be silent if they know you don’t want to hear the truth.

David Baldacci

No one. Even the police say Clancy before they’ll say Baldacci.

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i was paid a very large sum of money (~$20K) to appear in a promotional video for a prominent soft drink maker