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Emdashes: The Panel! At SXSW Tomorrow Morning. Be There!
Filed under: On the Spot Tagged: blogging, blogs, Comics Curmudgeon, Guy Gonzalez. Lizzie Skurnick, Josh Fruhlinger, Scott Rosenberg, SXSW
Start your day right with the panel I'm moderating! It's called "Why Keep Blogging? Real Answers for Smart Tweeple." Sorry about the usage of "tweeple"; it was entirely mobilized to tempt South By Southwest-type people, and that it has done. We're very excited to share our blogging experiences and argument for the vitality, warmth, and future of blogs with what one of our panelists, Scott Rosenberg, calls "Geekstock." I've never seen so many iPhones and Threadless tees in one place! I've spent the day sampling panels with Josh Fruhlinger, who's also on the panel and who keeps getting recognized by his "Apartment 3-G"-mad fans.
Emdashes will be represented--along with The Comics Curmudgeon (Fruhlinger), The Old Hag, Jezebel, Politics Daily (Lizzie Skurnick), Loud Poet (Guy Gonzalez), and Wordyard (Rosenberg). We'll talk about books, too, because Skurnick has published two--including Shelf Discovery: The Teen Classics We Never Stopped Reading (which I have read more than twice, since I've read both the book and, several times each, the Jezebel posts that started it all)--and Scott Rosenberg has published the brilliantly titled and equally brilliantly written Say Everything: How Blogging Began, What It's Becoming, and Why It Matters.
Here's the description. Please join us; it's going to be a rollicking powwow, and full of enthusiasm and energy--a good mood to be in for the rest of the day. See you there and come introduce yourself! If you're not already following Emdashes on Twitter, we are, of course, @Emdashes.
Why Keep Blogging? Real Answers for Smart Tweeple
Now that we think in 140-character strings and live through Facebook, it's tempting to throw out the blog baby with the bathwater. These seasoned bloggers explain the vitality of this still-revolutionary medium--the resources, community, continuity, and space for real ideas that only blogs can provide--and its infinite future potential.
--Emily Gordon
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Beat That: James Wood Investigates David Foster Wallace at the 92nd St. Y
Filed under: On the Spot Tagged: David Foster Wallace, Frank Rich, James Wood, Jane Mayer, John Krasinski
Martin Schneider writes:
There is a fantastic event coming up at the 92nd Street Y this month—New Yorker literary critic James Wood does a "First Read" of David Foster Wallace's adventurous, uneven, maddening, delightful, never-boring short story collection Brief Interviews with Hideous Men. The event is on Monday, March 22, at 8:15pm, and has a hipster-friendly pricing policy: $19 admission, but only $10 for those 35 and younger (ID will be checked, people, so no funny business).
I had the great pleasure of seeing Wood speak at the 2008 New Yorker Festival, and his intelligence, gentleness, and patience were extraordinary. As a longtime fan of Wallace, I'm genuinely excited to hear what
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Ben Greenman, Emily Flake at 'How I Learned': Sinning for Dummies
Filed under: On the Spot Tagged: Ben Greenman, Emily Flake, How I Learned
Jonathan Taylor writes:
The New Yorker's Ben Greenman is among those passing forward dubious knowledge tomorrow night at the "How I Learned" storytelling series at Happy Ending in Manhattan. This month's lesson at the Berlitz of bad behavior, hosted by our confidante Blaise Kearsley, is "How I Learned to Lie, Cheat or Steal." Cartoonist Emily Flake, whose work has appeared in the mag and was interviewed in the Cartoon Lounge, will also be presenting. Get there early; these free classes are known as an easy A.
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Course of Action: Emdashes Salutes Its Bobsled Team
Filed under: On the Spot Tagged: bobsled, Olympics, Pollux, sports
Pollux writes:
We here at Emdashes have embraced mountains of New Yorker issues and New Yorker history, and this week we embrace just mountains, as we hurtle through challenging chicanes and trying tracks. Emdashes Bobsled Team, we salute you.
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Bluegrass and Cartoons: This Valentine's Day in NYC!
Filed under: On the Spot Tagged: bluegrass, cartoons, events, Liza Donnelly, Matthew Diffee, Michael Maslin, music
Emily Gordon writes:
Every Steam Powered Hour I've been to has been more spectacular than the last. This Sunday, take your sweetie to (or your sweet self to) this, and your heart will soar, I guarantee it. You'll also laugh and tap your feet a lot. Don't think twice, just go!
From today's show announcement:
Two days from now -- A Special Valentine's Day Matinee Show from the Steam Powered Hour. Music by Reckon So and The Sassy Jenkins (Cassandra Jenkins, Stephanie Coleman, and Kristin Andreassen from the beloved band Uncle Earl).
Comedy by Colbert writer Frank Lesser, and New Yorker cartoonists Liza Donnelly and Michael Maslin.
Don't forget -- this one's a matinee.
Sunday, February 14th. 2:30 p.m.
The Nuyorican Poets Café
236 East 3rd Street between Ave B & C
Tickets are $15 at the door. Get 'em for $10 in advance at www.nuyorican.org.
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Some writing by Emily Gordon
- Review: A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore (for Newsday)
- Annotated slide show: a wet, festive 2009 Coney Island Mermaid Parade (for nycgo.com)
- Proposal: A better-looking MetroCard (for A Brief Message)
- Feature: Muslim immigration iconography in the Netherlands, and an interview with Ayaan Hirsi Ali (for Print)
- Review: Does a redesign of The New Republic mean a change of tune? (for Print)
- Interview: four online obsessives and visual cataloguers, Kate Bingaman, Nicholas Felton, Ellie Harrison, and John D. Freyer (for Print)
- Review: King's Gambit: A Son, a Father, and the World's Most Dangerous Game by Paul Hoffman (for Newsday)
- Interviews: winning New Visual Artists Eleanor Grosch, Zigmunds Lapsa, Christian Cervantes, and Kate & Camilla (for Print)
- Profile: lindy hop legend Frankie Manning (for Newsday, with Robert Fouch)
- Feature: Rea Irvin, illustrator, bon vivant, and The New Yorker's first art director (for Print)
- Profile: screenwriter and novelist Joe Keenan (for Newsday)
- Review: My Tiny Life: Crime and Passion in a Virtual World by Julian Dibbell (for Newsday)
- Review: Charles Dickens by Jane Smiley (for Newsday)
- Review: Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry (for Print)
- Report: Learning to read with comic books edited by Françoise Mouly (for Print)
- Report: The New Yorker's redesigned website (for Print)
- Interview: James Surowiecki on what's next for the wisdom of crowds (for Assignment Zero)
- Review: The Complete New Yorker (for Print)
- Interview: Matthew Diffee on the appropriately inappropriate cartoons of the The Rejection Collection (for Print)
- Interview: Roz Chast on Brooklyn, pysanky eggs, and animation (for Newsday)
- Review: books about various New Yorker cartoonists by Liza Donnelly and Iain Topliss (for Newsday)
- Review: Charles Addams: A Cartoonist's Life by Linda H. Davis (for Newsday)
- Interview: Edward Gorey (for Newsday)
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