Author Rick Moody appeared at the Franklin Park Reading series and read from his novel The Four Fingers of Death. Moody described the novel, narrated by one Montese Crandall, to the Washington Post as ”a 900-page comic novel about a disembodied arm set in the desert in 2026.” Put off? Listen in here and find out where the narrator’s name originated.
“I think a lot,” laughed the artist Itziar Barrio, stationed at the desk in her fifth floor studio at CSV (Clemente Soto Velez) on Suffolk Street in Manhattan. “That’s my job!” We were discussing her past eight years working as a full time artist – six of them in New York …
The Dish: Stuffed Collards
My first experience with stuffed cabbage of any kind was the Polish variety a friend introduced me to in Chicago, seven years ago. Fresh off a Thanksgiving holiday and loaded down with leftovers from her Polish-born mother back in Flint, Michigan, she showed up at the office with plastic containers ...
