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New post at The Faster Times on the Atlantic Monthly’s March issue.

Film Comment Selects at Lincoln Center screened a great new film by Romanian director Cristian Mungiu.  I reviewed the film for my In Sight column at BOMBlog.

The New York Public Library is my Mecca and Medina, it’s the most gorgeous temple to literature I’ve ever seen (unless you count Nature, though would literature be a temple then to nature…hmm).  So to be reading there is a huge, huge thrill.  The reading series is called “Periodically Speaking” and it’s hosted by CLMP (Council for Literary Magazines and Presses) who asks editors from literary magazines to introduce emerging writers from their pages.  I’ll be reading from a piece upcoming in Tin House (Fall Issue, on the shelves Oct 1st). Come!

I recently profiled emerging writer Carolina De Robertis for Paste Magazine’s new issue (October, ‘09). Carolina was an amazing interview, talking about wide-ranging topics from the bastardization of the term “magic realism” to the intersections between life and storytelling.  I can’t recommend her debut novel Invisible Mountain highly enough. She recently graced NY with her presence, reading from the novel at the Brooklyn Book Festival.

New article about filmmaker Jem Cohen on my In Sight column at the BOMBlog.

Keep an eye on The Faster Times for nonfiction books coverage.  Mostly I’ll be covering what strikes my fancy, but would like to focus on stories that go underreported.  Yesterday’s post featured recommendations on books about Iran by Alternative Radio founder David Barsamian.

The Faster Times is a brand spankin’ new news/culture site, whose mission is as follows:

The crisis of American journalism is, instead, a financial crisis. Opinions posted on blogs are cheap. Great journalism is expensive. So, the question is not whether there is a way to keep up with the constant appetite for news, but whether there is a way to keep up without foregoing great writing and reporting.

There will be many different answers to the questions facing the journalism industry in the coming years. Our answer is The Faster Times, a new type of newspaper for a new type of world.

The Faster Times is a collective of great journalists who have come together to try something new. As we launch this July, we will have more than a hundred correspondents in over 20 countries. We have someone on the ground in Kenya and someone else reporting from Lebanon. Our arts section will cover not just film and books, but also theater and dance and photography. We will launch with seven writers on books alone. These writers are not “citizen journalists” but among the most accomplished and recognized names in their respective fields.

New: my podcast interview with “Liveability” author Jon Raymond here.

This is the most hilarious and gorgeous site.  Every piece of clothing is a story, every story is part gothic humor (a la lemony snicket), part twisted fairy tale.  (I especially love the one about the turquoise necklace.)

In some recent news, I’ll be writing a regular “column” on film at Bomb Magazine’s beautiful new blog. The best part is that now I have an excuse to indulge my film obsession.  The column will be called “In-sight” (though I make no promises on it being necessarily insightful).