I admit it, I have a little crush on Pat Kiernan. I bought tickets to Match Game Live at 92Y Tribeca with the hopes of interacting with him, and I did! Match Game was a game show from the 70s where average people were paired with celebrities to see if they thought similarly. I watched [...]

I went to my very first pub crawl this weekend. The Greenwich Village Literary Pub Crawl takes place every Saturday and meanders throughout the streets once haunted by famous poets and authors. I got my ticket from Living Social Network so it was only $10, instead of the usual $20. I was really excited for [...]

Last night I attended a unique literary evening at the 92Y. The theme of the evening was six word memoirs. SMITH Magazine has been exploring the idea of six word memoirs for some time. They have compiled several books with this theme, getting celebrities, authors, teens, and plain janes to contribute his or her six [...]

Last night I went to hear Julie Powell read from her new memoir, Cleaving: A Story of Marriage, Meat, and Obsession, at one of my favorite indie bookstores, McNally Jackson. Julie Powell was shockingly down-to-earth for someone who wrote a bestselling memoir, Julie and Julia, and then had Amy Adams play her in the movie [...]

I just finished re-reading The Catcher in the Rye. I last read it in my teens. After scolding my husband for failing to have ever read it, I decided to pick it up and breeze through it after he finished. The Catcher in the Rye is a classic story about a young man, Holden Caulfield, [...]

It seems to be the season for scavenger hunts (like the Indie Bookstore Photo Hunt) and I love to see what designers come up with especially when there are prizes! Yesterday I took part in the Smartbox Scavenger Hunt around midtown. I found out about this hunt through a posting on Craigslist and I really [...]