Email Author Heather Baysa

2013 Stories by Heather Baysa

• FAIR TRADE

  published September 18, 2013

  Sure, you can watch movies and listen to music and play games on a Kindle, but can you feel the difference between matte and glossy surfaces, or... More >>

• CELEBRATE BOOK-LYN

  published September 18, 2013

  Brooklyn might be one of the only places left where one can refer to the “literary scene” without sounding nostalgic, sarcastic, or in... More >>

• OFF THE WALL

  published September 18, 2013

  Check out rare skater flicks 
You’ve seen Dogtown and Z-Boys, Kids, and Paranoid Park, all movies in BAM’s Skateboarding Is Not... More >>

• MONSTER MASH

  published September 11, 2013

  Could Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man be one of the great buddy movies? For a couple of snarling monsters, these guys work well together. Three... More >>

• DEAD MAN WALKING

  published August 28, 2013

  Stuart Gordon’s 1985 slash-and-laugh fest Re-Animator is certainly the strangest H.P. Lovecraft adaptation, but who says it’s not... More >>

• RED RUM

  published August 21, 2013

  Last spring, the documentary Room 237 presented us with a free-for-all of conspiracy theories as complexly interwoven as the Overlook... More >>

• LOOKING BACK

  published August 14, 2013

  Debbie Harry graces the cover of Wayne Koestenbaum’s new collection of musings, staring out at us from beneath pink-shadowed lids. Her look... More >>

• ALL THINGS CONSIDERED

  published August 7, 2013

  Of the two alien-related films that invaded theaters in the summer of 1982, The Thing definitely walloped E.T. as the grosser movie-going option.... More >>

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  Breaking Bad's Vince Gilligan Reveals the Exact Moment Walter White "Broke Bad" Forever

  published July 31, 2013

  The lauded "Golden Age" of television just makes Vince Gilligan sad. Let's get specific: "The sadness for me at the heart of it is that... More >>

• Q&A: Queens Native Bushra Rehman On Her Debut Novel and Growing Up Pakistani Muslim in Queens

  published July 31, 2013

  Bushra Rehman's first novel, Corona, is a fragmented, poetic, on-the-road adventure told from the perspective of the charismatic Razia Mirza.... More >>

• Of Montréal

  published July 31, 2013

  Poutine and smoked meat sandwiches are everywhere, street art trends ever toward the whimsical (anyone seen the Ent walking around lately?), and... More >>

• MEN IN BLACK

  published July 31, 2013

  Chuck Klosterman wants to know why the prototypical villain is a man in a black hat, mustache curled, probably in the process of tying a woman to... More >>

• GET LUCKY

  published July 24, 2013

  Slideluck. It’s like a gallery that comes to you, and brings heaps of delicious food with it. Shortened from the former “Slideluck... More >>

• BROOKLYN OR BUST!

  published July 24, 2013

  How long have we loved it—this lady mag for real ladies? Could it really be 20 years that we’ve turned to BUST for a feminist take on... More >>

• TRANSATLANTICISM

  published July 17, 2013

  TransAtlantic (Random House), the sprawling new novel by Colum McCann, might just deliver the grand scope promised in its title. The story spans... More >>

• DRAWN TOGETHER

  published July 17, 2013

  Cartoons aren’t just for kids. In fact they go pretty well with cocktails—and beer and vodka. The Animation Block Party understands,... More >>

• In I Wear the Black Hat, Chuck Klosterman is as Calculating and Sharp as Ever

  published July 10, 2013

  In an essay from his 2009 collection, Eating the Dinosaur, Chuck Klosterman reasons that because most television laugh tracks are stock... More >>

• HOT CHOCOLATE

  published July 10, 2013

  In a lot of ways, Courtney Farrell is on par with Lena Dunham’s Hannah. She’s learning how to live in New York City, indulging in a... More >>

• SWANN'S DAY

  published July 3, 2013

  Marcel Proust was born in Paris on July 10, 1871, during the Fourth French Revolution, amid rebellion in the streets and in the wake of a citywide... More >>

• EXTRA CRISPY

  published June 26, 2013

  Too far gone and too sorely missed are the days when one could cite “dandy” as a profession. And few were more committed to an... More >>

• Three Worlds Overdraws its Soap-operatic Hand

  published June 19, 2013

  The characters inhabiting the three very French worlds of Catherine Corsini's emotional thriller bear two common burdens: the weighty residual... More >>

• IN A FOG

  published June 19, 2013

  Fog is like the goth kid of weather conditions: It’s always rolling in, bringing the morbidity. Storytellers like Bram Stoker and Thomas... More >>

• STRANGE WATERS

  published June 12, 2013

  Childhood is terrifying for us all. But, of course, for Neil Gaiman, the monsters under the bed are always literal. The author of The... More >>

• A History of Future Folk's Subtle Sci-fi Best Served to the Burough in Which It Was Made

  published May 29, 2013

  For a movie about a pair of aliens who crash-land in Brooklyn and start a folk band, the debut feature by J. Anderson Mitchell and Jeremy Kipp... More >>

• HAPPY CAMPERS

  published May 29, 2013

  Who could forget those golden days at sleepaway camp? Swimming in the lake, macramé crafting, gay marriage ceremonies, rogue pieces of... More >>