Author Amor Towles; Lost New York at the NY Historical Society; An Inside Look at The Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show; Leila Mottley's Poetry Collection
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WNYC— Loading Best-selling author Amor Towles (The Lincoln Highway, A Gentleman in Moscow), has just published a new short story collection, Table For Two, featuring six stories he wrote in the last ten years that are set in New York around the turn of the millennium. The book also includes a novella following Evelyn Ross, a character from Towles' first novel, Rules of Civility, as she travels to 1930s Los Angeles to try and make it in Hollywood.New York is always changing. As a result, buildings,...
The Guardian—Lost New York: remembering the city’s forgotten landmarks. A new exhibition at the New-York Historical Society looks back on years of radical change in the city for better and worseIn recent decades New York City has changed dramatically, transforming from the lows of the crime and drug epidemics that ravaged the city in the 1970s and 80s to the resurgence and optimism that typified the 90s and the surge in gentrification that has been a source of debate more recently. Amid all of this transformation, one might make the assumption that these are new...
CelebrityAccess—Mötley Crüe Teases A Surprise Show At New York’s Bowery Ballroom. NEW YORK (CelebrityAccess) — The veteran rock band Mötley Crüe appears to be preparing to perform a special show in New York City next month. The show, which was first revealed by a flyer posted to the band’s social media, advertises a band called ‘1981’ performing at the Bowery Ballroom on May 6th. The 21+
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