TV Review: Up All Night

Written by Mark Peikert on September 27, 2011. Posted in Arts & Film, Books

Freed from the restraints of being daffy and arch, respectively, Christina Applegate and Will Arnett manage the neat trick of embodying both the couple you want to be in and the lovable weirdos with whom you’d hang out in NBC’s Up All Night. New parents at an age somewhere between Bristol Palin and Holly Hunter (both
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Book Review: The Postmortal

Written by Mark Peikert on September 27, 2011. Posted in Arts & Film, Books

Our obsession with youth reaches its ultimate climax in Drew Magary’s new novel, The Postmortal. An accidental scientific discovery reveals a way to render people ageless: Once injected with a serum, patients cease to grow older than their age at that moment. Suddenly, people worldwide remain in their twenties and thirties forever, rendering death from old
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Book Review: Blueprints for Building Better Girls

Written by Mark Peikert on September 27, 2011. Posted in Arts & Film, Books

Imagine, if you will, a Mary Gaitskill story collection in which the author casts a fond eye on the foibles and bad behavior of her characters. That book is Elissa Schappell’s Blueprints for Building Better Girls, a collection of eight sharp, meticulously etched and tenuously linked tales of female archetypes. Whatever stereotypes still cling to those
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Book Review: Skyjack: The Hunt for D.B. Cooper

Written by Mark Peikert on September 27, 2011. Posted in Arts & Film, Books

There are few sub genres of non-fiction more satisfying than that of a bizarre event recounted in the context of much larger themes. Timothy Egan, who has chronicled both the Dust Bowl of the 1930s and the wildfires of 1910 that prompted a widespread conservation movement, is the master of transforming history lessons into gripping
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Book Review: City of Promise

Written by Mark Peikert on September 27, 2011. Posted in Arts & Film, Books

When was the last time your heart started pounding while you read a novel? Or learned something you didn’t know about Manhattan’s history? If you can’t remember, then run, do not walk, to purchase a copy of Beverly Swerling’s compulsively readable City of Promise. Set in the Manhattan of the 1870s and ’80s, when elevated subways
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Book Review: The Language of Flowers

Written by Mark Peikert on September 24, 2011. Posted in Arts & Film, Books, NY Press Exclusive

The Language of Flowers is a bit like a perfectly manicured flowerbed: the symmetry and colors are breathtaking, but the work shows. In Vanessa Diffenbaugh’s debut novel, recently emancipated foster child Victoria strikes out on her own with almost no skills, interpersonal or otherwise, except for a deep connection to the Victorian language of flowers
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Book Review: The Postmortal

Written by Mark Peikert on September 24, 2011. Posted in Arts & Film, Books, NY Press Exclusive

Our obsession with youth reaches its ultimate climax in Drew Magary’s new novel, The Postmortal. An accidental scientific discovery reveals a way to render people ageless: Once injected with a serum, patients cease to grow older than their age at that moment. Suddenly, people worldwide remain in their twenties and thirties forever, rendering death from
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RECollection, volume 1: a new view on collaboration from Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Written by NY Press on September 22, 2011. Posted in Arts & Film, Blog, Books, Film, Music, Technology

RECollection, volume 1, the first “tactile experience” from hitRECord.org, the web-based collaborative production company founded by actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt, was released on Tuesday. If it’s not immediately obvious to you what a “web-based collaborative production company” is, or what a “tactile experience” is, allow me to explain. A “tactile experience” is a book, CD and
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The Death and Life of New York City

Written by Mark Peikert on September 14, 2011. Posted in Arts & Film, Books

No rivalry will ever serve as a better representation of New York City itself than that of the ruthlessly ambitious Robert Moses and the community-minded Jane Jacobs. Moses, the mercurial, all-powerful “master builder” responsible for everything from the Cross Bronx Expressway to Jones Beach, found his near-absolute power overthrown by urban activist Jacobs, whose book
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Book Review: Blueprints for Building Better Girls

Written by Mark Peikert on September 6, 2011. Posted in Blog, Books

Imagine, if you will, a Mary Gaitskill story collection in which the author casts a fond eye on the foibles and bad behavior of her characters. That book is Elissa Schappell’s Blueprints for Building Better Girls, a collection of eight sharp, meticulously etched and tenuously linked tales of female archetypes
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