The Kings County Society for Fitness, Science, and Musical Merriment Third Monthly Gala

James Yeh and I are hosting our monthly dance night at Greenpoint's Manhattan Inn this Friday. I play a lot of 60s soul and Southern hip-hop, James plays a lot of 80s pop and Northern jangle rock. Come on by and boogie.

your football assigned reading

I'm a little late posting this here, but before the kickoff of the NFL season I wrote a piece about great football books for Flavorwire. Pictured above is my absolute favorite.

you'll need this in the desert

Above is the rad cover for the new issue of Canteen magazine. The issue's feature is a series of essays that tangentially deal with the decline (?) of The Great American Novel. I have an essay in there on disappearing swimming pool deep-ends and there are essays by many other rad writers such as Justin Taylor and Tao Lin (read an excerpt of his essay online). Check it out!