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This weekend: Ames at King Con, beer fest, traveling vaudeville, marathon...
FRIDAY 7:30pm: new ‘vol. 1′ reading series celebrates chicago (the city, not the band) with windy city representatives adam levin, jami attenberg, and molly tolsky. bonus: free goose island beer! word,...
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‘Literary Brooklyn’ book giveaway and party
You’ve read everything by Jennifer Egan, Colson Whitehead (you call him “Cole”) and the Jonathans, and you’re even Facebook friends with Jonathan Ames. If you secretly believe you’re the +1 in n +1,...
View ArticleRIP Bored to Death: ‘I know it’s delusional behavior, but it’s important to me’
HBO announced today it is canceling its Brooklyn-based, Jonathan Ames-penned Bored To Death, and all I could think was, in the words of Ray, “My brain is attacking itself.” Let’s take a moment to pay...
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TONIGHT! Jonathan Ames will buy you a drink to say farewell to Bored to Death
The post's author drinking with Ames. The boredom was worth it. We’re still in mourning for Bored to Death after HBO announced it canceled the show yesterday. What better way to drown our sorrows than...
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This Brooklyn literary landmark guide is actually pretty sweet
Brooklyn Lit League, assemble! Can you name all these BK authors? National magazines takes on the to-do and must-see in Brooklyn are usually overly broad guides to the borough that are usually about as...
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All-stars all day at Book Court’s Sandy benefit reading
See Jonathan Ames and ask him a bunch of questions about Jason Schwartzman Brooklyn has helped foster an incredible literary scene, to the point where it was called a “vertically integrated factory for...
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A Blues Explosion and 9 other ways to blow the weekend
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion hits the Bell House Sunday 1. Check out Brooklyn Launchpad’s collection of animation from diverse sources: people who are alive and people who are dead (Friday) 2. Venom...
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Daft Punk dance party! And 16 other weekend ideas
Pay tribute to the unappreciated robots of Daft Punk at Union Hall on Saturday night 1. Kevin Corrigan sits down with Jonathan Ames and Michael Rapaport at Over the Eight. Hey, Rapaport has worked with...
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See Jonathan Ames at the Brooklyn Historical Society for just five bucks
You think he’d be more smiley for a guy with his own HBO show Of all of the literary Jonathans in New York, Jonathan Ames seems like he’s the most fun. The literary gadfly, man-about-town and guy who’s...
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