September 2010
7 posts
That Dutch Instinct for Order
“Manhattan is an accumulation of disasters that never happen.”
- Rem Koolhaas, Delirious New York
Delirious New York is a self-described “retroactive manifesto,” wherein Rem Koolhaas unpacks a school of thought, a modernist “program,” he calls Manhattanism: “to exist in a world totally fabricated by man, i.e., to live inside fantasy…” Unlike traditional manifestos, this “program” is...
What's a "Swingler?"
At the Brooklyn Book Festival today, I listened to a woman who I thought was Eileen Myles, but might not have been, say “I’m so done with New York, you know?” It was raining.
Later when Lonely Christopher arrived to take my spot at The Corresponding Society table (duly shared with SUPERMACHINE Poetry and Wave Books), he was sick. We stepped out from underneath the tarp, his hood...
The Big Apple
Last Sunday, my room mate and I found ourselves on 5th Avenue at about midnight, talking to a man named Doug Melville who owned a “red carpet” company. He’d passed us while we were rolling cigarettes outside of the steak house we’d just eaten dinner at. “I’m still waiting for royalties,” he said, referring to his surname. “Maybe in the next life. Do...
