As you may have heard, The Lo-Down is co-sponsoring this fun event at the Educational Alliance on Wednesday. Writers Gary Shteyngart and Joanna Smith Rakoff happen to be friends from college and share a love of the Lower East...
After a gorgeous autumn weekend, it'll be mostly cloudy today with a high of 55. Tonight, Community Board 3's SLA Committee has a full docket. We'll be on hand to see which bars and restaurants get CB3's blessing. Also...
Since the release last year of her debut novel, "A Fortunate Age," I have wanted to profile Lower East Side writer Joanna Smith Rakoff. Her upcoming appearance at the Educational Alliance , with fellow author Gary Shteyngart (an event...
The Lo-Down is looking forward to co-sponsoring an upcoming event at the Educational Alliance: "LES Lit," an evening with authors Gary Shteyngart and Joanna Smith Rakoff. The November 17th reading and discussion is a great opportunity to get to...
Interview by Margaret Zamos-Monteith, Pictures by Matthew Monteith.
Author Gary Shteyngart has just moved from the Lower East Side and already he is back at Brown Café on Hester Street, one of his favorite breakfast spots. “If I were a...
