R.I.P. Arthur Magazine

Posted by Jason Diamond Just heard the sad news that Arthur Magazine has officially folded.  First it went from on print hiatus, then it was resurrected, then it folded into online only, and now we get nothingness.

Continue Reading

Labor Day Bites: Tolstoy Street/Dostoevsky Ave., Blago’s memoirs, Agriculture Reader gets cheap, organic farms in Greenpoint, and more.

We’ve been doing our best to talk about how much New Yorkers read on the subway, and we used the title “24 Anna Karenina readers can’t be wrong” to highlight the New York Times coverage of citizens of Gotham and their literary choices while commuting.  The Millions also took the Russian lit. route, but instead of Tolstoy Street, they went down Dostoevsky Ave. Is ex-Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich the next great wordsmith?  No chance, but his memoirs are out, and […]

Continue Reading