Bashfully

Time Out on this Saturday's (2/20) event in Brooklyn:

The multidisciplinary benefit party Impossible Geometries, for the online journal Triple Canopy and the art-film space Light Industries, kicks off with readings by Ed Park and Lynne Tillman, follows with films and music, and promises to be the literary bash of the week.

"Staff cuts have socked up the overage"

Two February readings

On February 20, at 177 Livingston in Brooklyn—a benefit for Light Industry, Triple Canopy, and the Public School:



Then on Wednesday, February 24, I'll be appearing at Housing Works with Hari Kunzru and Mary Gaitskill for a Bookforum event:


Why not come to both?™

Up and down

At work I climbed from office boy to field officer to regional sales manager to CFO, and then back down again. —Luc Sante, "Flannel Ball" (at Significant Objects)

The sting

From the stinging embarrassment of the company softball team’s record-setting losses to the odd, enchanting power of a Post-it, Park repeatedly finds ways to turn the minutiae of office work into exciting, inviting prose.

—Lee Ellis, The New Yorker

(from Levi)

Lunch hour lit

At the Guardian, Toby Lichtig says Personal Days is not a book to read at work.

But in an actual, well-earned break from work, who's got the mental strength to curl up next to the fax machine and photocopier and be transported to a different world?

"Cc'd to Andy"

Add to the list of answering machine songs: Mink Lungs, live on WFMU.


(Via Good Jobbbbbb)