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Jan 14, 2024 | 
newyorker.com | Jon Michaud
In 2000, Dickson D.
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Jan 14, 2024 | 
cityfarmer.info | Jon Michaud |Michael Levenston
A leading proponent of vertical farming discusses how urban areas should adapt to a perilous environmental future. By Jon MichaudNew YorkerJanuary 14, 2024Excerpt:Urban farming was a good idea, Despommier thought, but his students hadn’t taken it far enough. “What’s wrong with putting the farmer inside the building?” he asked them, remembering that at the time there were “hundreds to perhaps thousands” of empty buildings in New York City.
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Nov 16, 2023 | 
newyorker.com | Jon Michaud
There was a hitch, though. My father, a serious audiophile, refused to allow his copy of the Carlos album to be ravaged by the school’s record player. He offered to make a recording of “Switched-On Bach” on his reel-to-reel tape recorder. Did the school have one of those? The next day, the teacher confirmed that they did, but she warned that she didn’t know how to operate it. That would be up to me.
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Nov 3, 2023 | 
lithub.com | Jon Michaud
When she was in high school in the early 1950’s, Joanna Russ (1930–2011) read Mark Twain’s short story “A Medieval Romance,” about a duke without a male heir who brings his daughter up to fill the role, hiding her gender from all. Things get complicated when the duke’s niece falls in love with his “son,” threatening to reveal her true identity and upset the succession.
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Jul 8, 2023 | 
yahoo.com | Jon Michaud
Literature is filled with great fictional bars, bartenders, and drunks—and cheers to them all.
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Jul 1, 2023 | 
bookreporter.com | Jon Michaud
Last Call at Coogan's: The Life and Death of a Neighborhood Bar About halfway through LAST CALL AT COOGAN’S, I asked myself, Who, outside of the immediate neighborhood, is going to be interested in this story? It seemed hyper-local. I compared it with the Instagram photos and videos that people post about their pets and kids. They might be fascinating, but mainly to those who have a close relationship to the subjects.
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Jun 9, 2023 | 
largeheartedboy.com | Jon Michaud
In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Amy Bloom, Aimee Bender, Roxane Gay, and many others. Jon Michaud’s Last Call at Coogan’s is a remarkable elegy for an iconic uptown Manhattan bar.
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Jun 6, 2023 | 
wordupbooks.com | Jon Michaud
Join Word Up in celebrating the launch of Last Call at Coogan's: The Life and Death of a Neighborhood Bar about the uniquely inspiring story of a beloved neighborhood bar that united the communities it served. Author Jon Michaud will be in conversation with Coogan's former owner Peter Walsh to share stories and images about the Washington Heights staple. The conversation will be held at Recirculation, a project of Word Up, with a Q&A and signing to follow.
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Jun 6, 2023 | 
audible.com | Jon Michaud |Michael Lewis |Finn Murphy |McKay Coppins
The uniquely inspiring story of a beloved neighborhood bar that united the communities it served. Coogan’s Bar and Restaurant opened in New York City’s Washington Heights in 1985 and closed its doors for good in the pandemic spring of 2020. Sometimes called Uptown City Hall, it became a staple of neighborhood life during its 35 years in operation―a place of safety and a bulwark against prejudice in a multi-ethnic, majority-immigrant community undergoing rapid change.
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Mar 4, 2023 | 
fredericknewspost.com | Jon Michaud
Novels have long served as source material for movies, but perhaps more aspiring novelists should start looking to classic films for inspiration.
