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2012 Stories by Angela Ashman

• SCI-FI BLUES

  published May 16, 2012

  If you’ve never been to a reading by Brian Francis Slattery, you’re in for a treat. An editor of The New Haven Review, Slattery is a... More >>

• PUT A BIRD ON THIS

  published May 16, 2012

  Long before Fred Armisen joined the cast of SNL and mocked hipster culture on Portlandia, he played drums in the punk band Trenchmouth and as one... More >>

• PARIS BLUES

  published May 9, 2012

  Ever since a trip to Paris when he was nine, Rosecrans Baldwin always dreamed that his life would be so much better, so much more chic if he could... More >>

• Vintage Gallo

  published May 9, 2012

  Who didn't want red boots after seeing a skinny, greasy-haired Vincent Gallo strut around in a pair in Buffalo '66? In his 1998 directorial debut,... More >>

• TAKE A CHANCE

  published May 2, 2012

  Can bingo be sexy? If you’re talking about Linda Simpson's Bingo-Go!, the answer is definitely yes. Simpson, the fabulous host of the weekly... More >>

• A Foreign Affair

  published May 2, 2012

  What a thrill it is whenever our New Yorker arrives with a new David Sedaris dispatch from Europe. The humorist’s latest story in the... More >>

• LAUGH LINES

  published April 25, 2012

  Adam Wilson, whose hilarious debut novel, Flatscreen, concerns an unlucky 20-year-old geek who finds a father figure in a wheelchair-bound... More >>

• STRANGE BREW

  published April 25, 2012

  There comes a time in every Brooklyn man's life when they put the PBR can down and yearn for something, well, good. Often, this leads to turning... More >>

• IN BLOOM

  published April 25, 2012

  Taiko drumming, tea ceremonies, and samurai sword fighting may not sound like things you'd find in Brooklyn. And yet, this weekend, you'll feel... More >>

• BUILDING BRIDGES

  published April 25, 2012

  They say you can't teach an old dog new tricks, but in the case of the PEN American Center, which is turning 90, that's simply not true. At this... More >>

• WRITER UP

  published April 11, 2012

  Just in time for Yankees opening day, Chad Harbach, author of The Art of Fielding, a terrific book that centers on the players of a winning... More >>

• SHOP AROUND

  published April 11, 2012

  So you finished your spring cleaning and donated all the things you no longer want to charity. Good for you! Now get back out there and stock up... More >>

• BOY WONDER

  published April 11, 2012

  Not about to be pinned down, Dan Fishback has played in bands, created visual-art pieces, and performed solo works for the theater (most recently,... More >>

• WHITE LIES

  published April 11, 2012

  When Jim Fingal was an intern at The Believer in 2005, he was assigned to fact-check a 15-page essay by John D'Agata about a boy who... More >>

• HIGH NOON

  published April 11, 2012

  Jonathan Franzen has called author and editor Diane Williams "one of the true living heroes of the American avant-garde," and that's no... More >>

• KILL YR COMPUTER

  published April 11, 2012

  When Jack White said, "What a shame to leave a child, or worse, a generation 
orphaned from one of life's great beauties," was he talking... More >>

• FRESH PAINT

  published April 11, 2012

  The late arts patron Vera List, who had a natural eye for collecting contemporary art, once said: "I don't want to buy what someone else likes. I... More >>

• LITERARY LIGHTS

  published April 11, 2012

  "I don't want to write any story that I think can be written," author Nathan Englander recently told Granta magazine. "The challenge and fun of... More >>

• DADDY ISSUES

  published April 11, 2012

  In the award-winning Danish film The Celebration (1998), family dysfunction rules when a young man accuses his father of incest at his 60th... More >>

• BOOGIE DOWN

  published April 4, 2012

  No need to guess why budding filmmaker and actor Lena Dunham would find Whit Stillman's The Last Days of Disco (1998) inspiring. The story... More >>

• RED-LIGHT DISTRICT

  published April 4, 2012

  If you’re in a band, and David Lynch agrees to collaborate with you, the first rule is that you don’t ask questions. In the case of... More >>

• NEW CHAPTERS

  published April 4, 2012

  Since the indie publishing empire McSweeney’s was founded by Dave Eggers in 1998, they’ve put out books that are both wonderful to... More >>

• SPEED PUNK

  published April 4, 2012

  Spend enough time with a musician, and you'll find that his or her war stories of life on the road can be entertaining but, well, endless.... More >>

• FIGHT BACK

  published March 28, 2012

  In their righteous new Guerrilla Girls' Art Museum Activity Book, the feminist group (whose members dress up in ferocious gorilla costumes) offers... More >>

• BE PREPARED

  published March 28, 2012

  Rory Hendrix, the young protagonist of Tupelo Hassman's debut novel, Girlchild, lives in a trailer park outside Reno at the mercy of a... More >>