Nick Waterhouse played New York last week, and Sound of the City has the details.

Matt Fraction and Howard Chaykin are working together on a comic.

David Edelstein has some good things to say about the director’s cut of Kenneth Lonergan’s film Margaret.

Forgotten New York provides a tour of Greenpoint’s enchanted villages.

Eugene Lim on Enrique Vila-Matas’s Never Any End to Paris.

Zach Kelly on the latest from the Floridian postpunk band Merchandise. (Who, clearly, keep us in line.)

Apparently, there’s a Paris Review/High Times softball rivalry.

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