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"THE first thing I did when I got off at Penn Station, I went into this phone booth. I felt like giving somebody a buzz. I left my bags right outside the booth so I could watch them, but as soon as I was inside, I couldn't think of anybody to call up.'' So begins the New York adventure of [...]
There are secret portals all over New York City, and without warning you can get sucked into one. I fell down one of those rabbit holes myself in the last icy days of winter and, after the briefest of wonderland experiences, was unceremoniously coughed back up and spat out again. One of my loftier 2009 New Year’s Resolutions was, whenever [...]
I'd written down the wrong rotation number and reported to LaGuardia instead of Kennedy. Easy mistake for a new flight attendant: Rotation 1010 – LGA to Kansas City. Rotation 1001 – JFK to Madrid. Rotation 1010 meant the Kansas City Best Western, watered-down orange juice at Waffle House, and no in-room movies. Rotation 1001 meant a 48-hour layover of tapas, [...]
I've lived in my apartment in Park Slope for about seven months now, yet somehow I've entirely neglected getting curtains for the windows in the living room. It never really occurs to me that this is a problem unless I'm home during the afternoon on a sunny day. At night, I like the uncovered windows ... the streetlights outside, the [...]
Join us on FRIDAY, APRIL 30th, 8pm at Happy Ending, 302 Broome Street on the Lower East Side. Free, and open to the public. Readers are PATRICK W. GALLAGHER, ERIC NELSON, DOROTHY SPEARS, and FAITH WURTZEL. The host is CONNOR GAUDET. Patrick W. Gallagher is the founder, curator, and host of Animal Farm Reading Series and a former [...]
