I AM A NIELSEN FAMILY except i dont have a tv. but that is a minor issue, one to soon be resolved. but isn’t that exciting? i can skew the nation’s viewing habits. i can influence programming. i can have nielsen parties with all the free money they give me. we’ll have foie gras and […]

POETS AND ALL SORTS OF NONSENSE need we even say poets and nonsense in the same phrase. i mean, poets, freaks of the world that we are, are always full of nonsense. and sense ironically. anyhoo, it was a great reading monday night, if i do say so myself. rayray, leanne brown and lytle shaw […]

DEAR READERS WRITE IN from cousin sarah: “Miss Meghan, I have to tell you about my very favorite pair of shoes. I was wearing them when I met my husband. I know it was the shoes that he loved!!! They are a very high black stiletto. They have a unique open toe. They look like […]

COUSIN BETHANY ROSE WRITES IN “My favorite pair of shoes are a black pair of Skecher, hiking boots. They are so comfortable and I feel like i could do anything in them. I have worn them all Winter long and I would wear them through Summer if it didn’t look so funny…” i hear you […]

WHAT A WEEKEND started out with waleed at soho house on thursday eve. too many tourists made us duck around the corner to APT, where kim took such good care of us. fabulous senia joined us, and a little foie gras and two cosmos later, we headed to the basement for some “bootybass”. now this […]

URETHRAS AND TUBAS if you are not thom or andy you probably won’t get that but you don’t really need to. it was just a little something that came up during our vodka-laden editorial meeting last night for failbetter, one of the best literary zines out there if i do say so myself. the anyway […]

POETS THROW DOWN betcha didn’t know poets could throw down didja? but oh boy, you should check out the barn dance at breadloaf one year. you will really see the boogying. in a mini-version of that pastoral/hedonistic venue, amazing reading last night hosted by the ever-chic poet rebecca wolff at the new school. mary ruefle, […]

READERS WRITE IN from grandma p in farmington, michigan: “Hi, sweet Meghan: My favorite pair of shoes was a red high-heeled pump in the 1940s. When I was expecting our third child there was a pair in Beck’s shoe store window and I really coveted them and thought about them and planned to buy them […]