In advance of his online author talk on May 21, courtesy of JCC Rochester, comedy writer Alan Zweibel talks about the challenge of virtual audiences and the importance of pandemic-era television
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MEDIA: The last bastions
Now that Blockbuster has gone the way of the dodo, closing what remained of its stores at the start of this year, it seems the end is near for physical media. The fall of the former giant of home entertainment is just the latest reminder that the now omnipresent Kindles and Nooks, iTunes, Netflix, and […]
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WINTER GUIDE: The cozy catalogue
It’s fairly common to suggest some escapist epics or saucy stories to take to the water’s edge during the warmer months. But when are we more in need of mental transportation than mid-winter? City thought it would be fun to flip the “beach reads” concept, and consider what stories are more suited to snowdrifts than […]
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Satisfy your inner nerd
The autumnal re-opening of school doors calls us back inside to the world of books. Summer paperbacks with sand trapped between the pages get shelved. The cooler season goes better with the sound of book spines cracking and of heavyweight paper turning; the squeak of highlighters against textbooks’ lines; the smell of preserved paper trapped […]
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Two-bit cultural literacy
Used bookstores are great. Garage sales have their value. You can even find some good books poking around in people’s trash. But thrift-store bookshelves contain some of the best literary discoveries. Like garage sales, there’s a certain core library that all thrift stores seem to stock: the requisite three copies of The Godfather, a […]
