My review of “Spoiled” in Sunday’s New York Times…
Other People’s AirsBy KAUI HART HEMMINGSPublished: March 27, 2009
With a title like “Spoiled,” I expected Caitlin Macy’s first story collection to be about Park Avenue princesses caught in a glamorous panic of wealthy-people problems (status, sex scandals, where to summer) and using wealthy-people medication (gossip, Barneys, Grey [...]

I’ve been swinging these days between optimism and fuckitism. Sometimes I think I have great ideas and the energy to execute them. Other times (maybe hours later) I feel my ideas should be sat upon by this guy.Sometimes I look at the economic down turn and think: Let’s all gather our towels and [...]

James Ellroy says that, “MY ABANDONMENT is an electrically charged, bone-deep, and tender tale of loss and partial redemption.” I say that, “MY ABANDONMENT is written by Pete Rock! I love Pete Rock! He’s so cool and funny and smart and I wish my last name were Rock. Your first name [...]

1. Saturday night party/silent auction for a school. Daniel Kim was there, looking around. My husband goes, “Hey, are you lost?”
2. One of the items up for bid was to be the headmaster for a day. In the program this was most unfortunately titled, “Head For a Day.” When this is [...]

So there’s this, um, global economic crisis? And yesterday, I guess we almost got hit by an asteroid? Is this the end, or what? Sometimes I don’t know if we should all keep plugging away or give it all up and do what we really want to do (for me, it’s to [...]