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By The Editors 2/19 7:29pm

On the Page: David Shields and Dennis Hopper

How Literature Saved My Life

David Shields

Knopf, 224 pp., $25.95

David Shields, for all he is, can sometimes read like a second-rate Geoff Dyer. In his new book How Literature Saved My Life, Mr. Shields looks at cultural touchstones that are important to him and then tries to conjure up a unifying theory based Read More

By Caitlin Keating 6/02/09 8:14pm

Mob Scene at J. Crew! Author Tom Folsom Conjures Racketeers Among the Racks

Would “Crazy Joe” Gallo look good in fleece?

The Daily Transom couldn’t help but wonder on Monday night, June 1, during a reading of author Tom Folsom‘s new book about the legendary gangster, titled The Mad Ones, inside the new J. Crew Men’s Shop in Soho.

What, was Spark’s Steak Read More

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