Lipsyte gets laughs from M.F.A.s, whose fate he chronicles:
His protagonist, Milo, is a sublimely cynical failed artist who works in a development office at "a mediocre university." "Not ours," quipped the professor. The audience laughed, but only a little.
Bio: Jessanne Collins is an editor at Out and has contributed to Salon, The Awl, The Morning News, Radar, Time Out New York and The New York Observer.
In benign blue jeans and a blazer, the 42-year-old author recently called “a fine microbrewer of bitterness” was introduced by Helen Schulman, a novelist who coordinates the program’s fiction department. She gave an overview of his most recent novel, The Ask, a “witty paean to white-collar loserdom,” which came out in March. Its protagonist, Milo, is a sublimely cynical failed artist who works in a development office at “a mediocre university” in New York City. “Not ours,” Schulman quipped. The audience laughed—but only a little.
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on November 23rd, 2010 7:40amA comeback tour by '90s Indie rockstars Evan Dando and Juliana Hatfield in a month marked by a Pavement reunion, a Superchunk show, and a Pitchfork Top '90s track list could seem like an opportunistic attempt to capitalize on a general atmosphere of nostalgia washing over the city. The two would like to assert that it is not.
"We’re not trying to bring back the '90s," Dando said to the 30-something-plus audience at the Mercury Lounge last night. "We just wanted to play a couple shows... Right?" More
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