Nathan Rostron

@literaryhub.bsky.social started when the internet was still sometimes fun to look at and they continue to prick little streams of light and sustenance into the darkness. Carry on, heroes! 🎂🚀

Cafe Gitane, a Vanguard of Cool, Back on the Scene Again David Bowie loved its couscous. Norman Reedus hung out there. It put avocado toast on the map. Thirty years later, and with a new book honoring it, Cafe Gitane is drawing a fresh crowd.

I know that publishing a book about the cool kids does not, alas, make oneself cool, but this was pretty cool to put together with Cafe Gitane. I can live with cool-adjacent.
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/17/s...

The 10 Best Books of 2024 The staff of The New York Times Book Review choose the year’s top fiction and nonfiction.

The New York Times presents the 10 Best Books of Penguin Random House of 2024 🙃

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/03/b...

Every word must include the center G! The “Cinch” in “Cinching” was a cruel irony.

Queen bee, oh you elusive minx.

New York's #CafeGitane opened 30 years ago and helped define NoLIta along with our flagship #McNallyJackson bookstore. We're thrilled to be collaborating with them on our first coffee table book! Come and celebrate CAFE GITANE: 30 YEARS with us on Dec 13. RSVP: www.mcnallyjackson.com/event/mcnall...

Welcome.

November 7. This Thursday. Sloane Crosley. Merve Emre. Heidi Julavits. McNally Jackson Seaport. Bon mots, booze, and all the conviviality we can muster.
www.mcnallyeditions.com/updates/dang...

So this thing is kind of like Twitter but without the constant flood of attention-demanding push notifications from the noxious obnoxious ceo himself? Sounds nice.

As I do with every social media venture I ambivalently embark upon, I’ll begin with a wish that is also a pun: Someone please open a dive bar in Chinatown called Forget It, Jake. We may need it come next week. 🥃