Check out Black Lamb, a California-based literary review, this month - they have reprinted my review of Alan Hollinghurst's The Stranger's Child. You can request a free copy at their website, or you can read the review at The Second Pass, where it originally appeared.

For the New Inquiry's "Un(der)known Writers" series, I wrote about Penelope Mortimer, author of The Pumpkin Eater and many other fantastic books.

Hello! I'm very excited to report that I have joined Gotham Magazine as Online Market Editor! You can keep up with my posts on gorgeous things and happening events here in New York at their Insight blog.

“I have never been able to stop wondering where my friends’ money came from, nor to stop thinking that at one time a sort of droit de seigneur might have been exercised to give one of them my girl. For 16 years I lived pretty much as this latter person, distrusting the rich, yet working for money with which to share their mobility and the grace that some of them brought into their lives.” - from New Directions' F. Scott Fitzgerald: On Booze, which I reviewed at The New Inquiry.

I reviewed Mark Whitaker's memoir, My Long Trip Home, for The Barnes and Noble Review.  Read it here!

Mark Whitaker, the first black editor of Newsweek and current managing editor of CNN Worldwide, explains that it was the memoir of another prominent biracial man, Dreams of My Father by Barack Obama, that inspired him to write his own father's story in My Long Trip Home. He goes on to clarify that his memoir will be very different because, unlike President Obama, he knew his father "for half a century, for better or, as was so often the case, for worse."

Everything from China's gender policy to Anthony Weiner's weiner.

I reviewed Alan Hollinghurst's new novel, The Stranger's Child, for The Second Pass.  "English majors who revel in the not-so-secret sex lives of the Bloomsbury group will be more than prepared for Alan Hollinghurst’s new novel, The Stranger’s Child, which recounts the brief but lusty life of Cecil Valance, a poet who “would fuck anyone” before joining up in World War One and getting himself killed at the age of twenty-five in France."

Everything and anything you wanted to know about shopping vintage in Williamsburg, Brooklyn can be found here, from  cheap deals to men's clothing to selling clothes to where to build Halloween costumes. It's all here. So click.

Did you know that in 2006 thirteen people reported seeing a flying saucer at Chicago O'Hare airport ? No? Well, read about that sighting and nine more at TruTV.

Warning: The Grinning Man story gave me nightmares.