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Filed under: The Catbird Seat: Friends & Guests Tagged: A. M. Homes, Annie Proulx, Donald Antrim, events, Iraq, Miranda July, New Yorker Festival, The New Yorker
Martin and I will be reporting from the New Yorker Festival throughout the weekend, so look for our frequent reports! In the meantime, there are a few other people we’d like you to meet. —E.G.
Toby Gardner: With the New Yorker Festival upon us and so many events scattered across the city, the Emdashes Powers That Be (EPTB) saw the need for a new strategy: the Pepper Mill, whereby several correspondents are sprinkled throughout the proceedings like so many flavor-enhancing spices. And I am one of their new recruits. I hope I get called up for tonight’s chat between Miranda July and A.M. Homes on Deviants. There’s also a Town Hall meeting about the war in Iraq, but how relevant is that, really?
Although EPTB offered to pay off my student loans in exchange for my services, I said that really wouldn’t be necessary. [While we’re at it, we really should pay off ours, too. —Ed.] The honor to help cover this exciting festival is payment enough. So if you see a bald guy with a Mac G4 and a winning attitude, say hello. I’ll be working hard to make ensure that Operation Pepper Mill is a success.
Quin Browne will be covering a couple of events for Emdashes this weekend. She was born in New Orleans under one name, and writes in New York under this one. Blatherings about this and that can be found at www.fmdn.blogspot.com; actual shorts are located under her name at www.sixsentences.blogspot.com.
Tiffany De Vos’s name and musical tastes owe much to the ’80s. She is a poet, pet chinchilla enthusiast, and teacher. Her stories and poems have appeared in Pedestal, The Saint Ann’s Review, Washington Square, Small Spiral Notebook, and the Global City Review. Her hair often falls over her right eye, but she is by no means a hipster.
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Hello! We're a small band of media enthusiasts, culture addicts, and journalists based in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles. Emdashes, formerly a New Yorker fan site, is our collection of conversations—mostly civilized—about magazines, movies, politics, design, punctuation, and other things that stir us.
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Dashes, some say, “are particularly useful in a sentence that is long and complex.” Emdashes—like an em dash itself—provides a thoughtful pause amid the hubbub.
Emdashes, founded in 2004, is written and drawn by Emily Gordon, Martin Schneider, Pollux, Jonathan Taylor, and Benjamin Chambers, as well as occasional guest contributors. All posts before October 2008 are by Emily Gordon.
The site was designed by House of Pretty with illustrations by Jesse R. Ewing.
Additional drawings are by Carolita Johnson and Pollux (author of our web comic, "The Wavy Rule"). The Emdashes pencil logo is by Jennifer Hadley, based on a 1943 Dorothy Gray ad.
Other writing by Emily Gordon
- Writing on theater: reviews (for Time Out Chicago; imperfect but workable search results)
- Profile: Valerie Casey, Designers Accord founder, is spearheading the design of sustainability (for SXSW World)
- Feature: Rea Irvin: visionary art director, bon vivant, New Yorker founding father (for Print)
- Slide show: the Coney Island Mermaid Parade (for NYCgo.com)
- Feature: Muslim immigration iconography in the Netherlands, and an interview with Ayaan Hirsi Ali (for Print)
- Review: King's Gambit: A Son, a Father, and the World's Most Dangerous Game by Paul Hoffman (for Newsday)
- Homage: Celebrating lindy-hop legend Frankie Manning (for NYCgo.com)
- Inquiry: Does a New Republic redesign mean a change of tune? (for Print)
- Interview: James Surowiecki on what's next for the wisdom of crowds (for Assignment Zero)
- Interviews: four up-and-coming designers under 30 (for Print)
- Profile: novelist and dance critic Laura Jacobs (for Newsday)
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Me three on the loan thing.