Deliriously thrilled to announce my book, Lou Reed: The King of New York, will be published in October by Farrar,Straus&Giroux. 🙏 to No Ideas for the slyly brilliant design. Pre-order from your local indie shop or via link below. More details to come xo #LouReed us.macmillan.com/books/97803741…

An oral history of Paper magazine The New York Times. Great beginning, lots left on the cutting room floor. But I like it. nytimes.com/2023/07/01/sty…

"Mickey was interviewing this woman for the receptionist job, and a mouse got caught in a trap, and he was killing it with his bare hands while he was interviewing her." the best little downtown rag there ever was. hooray Paper Magazine's back! Walter Benjameme nytimes.com/2023/07/01/sty…

Mr. Met is evil. (At least they're winning.)

Uhhh. May have spoken too soon. Seems like a pattern for the Mets.

Which magazines?

This is terrible policy endangering New Yorkers for what? thecity.nyc/2023/7/21/2380…

Yes. 75. Manhattan. I covered the story for the soho News.

I'm conflicted here because given the way the city has handled legal cannabis rollout this will be another shit show. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Meeting Marshall Chess: The record industry dynast talks music, family, and doing drugs with the Rolling Stones tabletmag.com/sections/arts-…

Honored to tell the the story of Chess Records scion Marshall Chess. tabletmag.com/sections/arts-…

Thank you.

This sucks. NY police going back to stop and frisk and crazy car chases... thecity.nyc/2023/8/22/2384…

Empty office space is opening doors for creative solutions and I like it. washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/…

Mayor Eric Adams was a terrible, terrible, terrible choice for Mayor of New York City and it becomes more clear every single day with his cheap car salesman BS.

Well deserved. Next Up: Man of the Year.

Not surprisingly Jill Lepore makes many interesting point here re Walter Isaacson new Musk bio, concerning whats left out of the book about his grandfather's antisemitism and how it relates to our times. newyorker.com/news/daily-com…

On one of the slowest runners :)

Hi all -- I'm no longer spending any time here on X. You can find my pungent and hilarious comments over on @threads. David Hershkovits. Come visit.

Here’s a serious critique by Professor Norman Goda, a distinguished Holocaust historian, dissecting South Africa’s case of Genocide against Israel in the ICJ. I’m doing my best to stay agnostic but this is a pretty devastating legal and factual analysis quillette.com/2024/01/17/law…