This past Friday, the McNally Jackson Bookstore on Prince St
hosted editors and contributors from n+1 magazine, who read works from
their latest issue and discussed a new project, Magazines of the Americas.
Shortly after 7pm, the editors and contributors of
n+1 took their seats in front of the crowd. After a few words from staff of the bookstore welcoming everyone, Keith Gessen, Mark Greif, Chad Harbach, Allison Lorentzen, David Noriega, Marco Roth, and Katherine Sharpe rose one after another to give readings of their works. They were all noteworthy, thought the loveliest reading came from Katherine Sharpe's
R WE GOING TO DAI ALONE? a review of online dating sites. You can and should read that in part,
here.
Mark Greif read from his work
On Repressive Sentimentalism: Gay abortion now! During the Q&A after, an audience member asked Mark about his attack on marriage, only half jokingly pointing out: "Some might say, 'But you were married this summer.'"
After disclosing that they recieved "a lot" of letters to the editor about his piece, a number of which made that same point in varying degrees, Mark admitted he discovered he might not have been as in tune with the "common sense" as he thought he was. "But I don't think you should attack institutions," he concluded, "unless you yourself participate or engage with them. So that is my defense."
n+1 contributor David Noriega read from
Among Friends by Mexico City's prolific and admired
Juan Villoro—work Noriega himself translated for the current issue of n+1:
The telephone rang twenty times. On the other end of the line someone was thinking that I live in an estate where it takes a long time to get from the stables to the telephone, or that I hesitate a lot before picking up the receiver. The latter, sadly, turned out to be the case.
It was Samuel Kramer. He had returned to Mexico City to write a report on violence
Though it wasn't described as such, the reading seemed to be a beta version n+1's "Magazine of the Americas" project announced by David that evening. Beginning with the next issue of n+1, the project seeks to publish a translated work from one selected magazine in the Americas, continuing with a work from a different country with each new issue of n+1. Upcoming issues will feature work from writers in Peru and Columbia. After the event, David told us more about Magazines of the America, watch below:
Video commentary by Keith Gessen on how the fiction in
n+1 differs than fiction in
The New Yorker or
Harper's, will be forthcoming.
Video: Paolo Mastrangelo / Photo: n+1 Twitter
The Moncler boutique on Prince Street in SoHo has styled their window in miner chic, likely inspired by the Chilean miners of 2010. View photo in larger size here. Does this mean we can expect Egyptian inspired fashion this spring? 
The windows at Christian Audigier's Soho branch on Prince and Lafayette Streets have been papered! This doesn't look good. Has it befallen the same fate its neighbor Parasuco succumbed to, and fallen out of fashion? Are the male fashionistas of New York City moving on to other clothing lines featuring bedazzled dragons? 
One can almost feel the excitement of 24-year-old aspirational fashionistas all over Soho who can't afford a Bottega Veneta bag or those must have Gucci sandals. Because a new Coach store has opened on Prince Street, at the corner of West Broadway. Yup, don't deny yourself. Everyone deserves a new pair of sneakers, every inch stamped with the Coach logo, made by the hands of 11 little girls in Turkey. 
Though "soon to be" is subjective. New York Magazine reported on the coming Soho Synagogue back in 2005 and its planned opening that fall. More recently, The New York Observer reported the Synagogue rhas signed a lease at 43 Crosby Street (map) last year. Their imminent opening seems likely now; Global Graphica walked by in February when the windows were papered over and Coming Soon signs in place. 
A hand painted advertisement for Lexus was recently added to the wall adjacent to a long empty lot on Mulberry Street at the corner of Prince.
You can see in the photo at right, his play on words doesn't end with the sign at his feet. His discs contain real estate jargon, and his business is called "Soulful Real Estate Locations." Indeed. 
This past Friday, the McNally Jackson Bookstore on Prince St hosted editors and contributors from n+1 magazine, who read works from their latest issue and discussed a new project, Magazines of the Americas.
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