TLDS May Culture Klatch
Welcome back to Culture Club, the weekly feature where David and I discuss our preoccupations—what we’ve been thinking about, reading, watching or...
Notable Sandwiches #97: Jucy Lucy
By David Swanson Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where Talia and I stumble our way through the strange and mutable document that is...
Supreme Injustices
By David Swanson Welcome back to Culture Club, the weekly feature where Talia and I discuss our preoccupations—what we’ve been thinking about, reading,...
Notable Sandwiches #96: Jibarito
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where I and my longsuffering editor David Swanson stumble our way through the strange and mutable document...
Small Vices
I’m lucky enough to have a tiny garden in the middle of New York City, where space is at a premium and outdoor space even more so. It’s a patch of concrete...
Tales of the Fantastic
Welcome back to Culture Club, the weekly feature where David and I discuss our preoccupations—what we’ve been thinking about, reading, watching or...
Notable Sandwich Tribute to Steve Albini
By David Swanson Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where Talia and I stumble our way through the strange and mutable document that is...
The Tempest: Stormy Daniels Revisited
Inspired by the testimony of Stormy Daniels in court today, we’re re-publishing a pair of stories that Talia wrote for the Village Voice six years ago, when...
Culture Club: Grab Bag
Welcome back my own most beautiful darlings! I want to thank you for being paid subscribers—you’re helping me keep the lights on and keep doing what I love...
Notable Sandwiches #95: Jesuita
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where I and my longsuffering editor David Swanson stumble our way through the strange and mutable document...
History Repeats Itself at Columbia
By David Swanson Columbia’s Low Memorial Library in 1968, and in 2024 Last night, as a group of activists took over Hamilton Hall just hours after Columbia...
TLDS Culture Klatch
Welcome back to Culture Club, the weekly feature where David and I discuss our preoccupations—what we’ve been thinking about, reading, watching or...
Notable Sandwiches Passover Edition: The Hillel
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where we trip merrily through the bizarre and mutable document that is Wikipedia’s List of Notable...
Ten Poems for April
Welcome back to Culture Club, the weekly feature where David and I discuss our preoccupations—what we’ve been thinking about, reading, watching or...
Notable Sandwiches #94: Jambon-Beurre
By David Swanson Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where we trip merrily through the bizarre and mutable document that is Wikipedia’s List of...
Announcing my new book, WILD FAITH!
Howdy y’all, I want to personally thank every subscriber to this newsletter (picture me giving you a very light kiss on the cheek in the European fashion)...
Time is a Flat Circle: True Detective, 10 Years Later
Welcome back to Culture Club, the weekly feature where David and I discuss our preoccupations—what we’ve been thinking about, reading, watching or...
Notable Sandwiches #93: Jam
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where David and I stumble our way through the bizarre and mutable document that is Wikipedia’s List of...
Once Upon a Time in Los Angeles: A History of Hollywood in 30 Films
By David Swanson Welcome back to Culture Club, the weekly feature where Talia and I discuss our preoccupations—what we’ve been thinking about, reading,...
Notable Sandwiches #92: Italian
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where I, alongside my long-suffering editor David Swanson, trek through the enormous and unwieldy document...