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COLLECTED AGENDA #4

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COLLECTED AGENDA #4

What I Did - Beckett’s Tense, Learning Not To Linger, What Are Children For Book Launch, Etc What You Should Do - Late June, Early July WHAT I DID Monday, June 10 Two dining reviews today: Sadelle’s Brunch is highly overrated. French toast is of course good if deep fried but this is gross and also feels fake and cheap. It’s a little bit rainy and I’m a little bit tired and so maybe I’m predisposed to a negative revie

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What I Did - Beckett’s Tense, Learning Not To Linger, What Are Children For Book Launch, Etc What You Should Do - Late June, Early July WHAT I DID Monday, June 10 Two dining reviews today: Sadelle’s Brunch is highly overrated. French toast is of course good if deep fried but this is gross and also feels fake and cheap. It’s a little bit rainy and I’m a little bit tired and so maybe I’m predisposed to a negative review and so maybe I’ll revisit here but probably not. Monday morning brunch at Sadelle’s feels a little decadent and indulgent

  • perhaps too much so. I’m going to graduate school for Art Criticism and I’m working Only Freelance and I like that my time is all my own but I worry this could turn into my time is all Letting Things Drift. Later, I’m smoking cigarettes on the roof which is lovely albeit useless in terms of furthering my goals of harnessing self discipline. Dinner at Balthazar is better, because it’s darker inside and classic inside and I arrive close to closing and I write little notes on the postcards they leave you and we make a little bit of a scene but nothing outside the realm of social acceptability. Balthazar is cozy, which is why it is good. Order: steak tartare, salmon, salad, pomegranate martini (dirty martini is better), heritage chicken. Walking home late. Soho at night is growing on me. Tuesday, June 11 I wake up with a change of heart. I am cleansing my body and my soul. I’m drinking THE DETOXIFIER from Juice Generation - dandelion, burdock, lime, hibiscus, milk thistle. I am sitting at Equinox surrounded by men with notebooks and airpod maxes. I want to get up but I am surrounded on all sides and I don’t want to ask anyone to move. I don’t want to be Type A, but I do want to be pure in body and spirit. Evening, I’m at McNally Jackson, SoHo for the official launch of What Are Children For? . I’ve been lucky enough to work with authors Anastasia Berg and Rachel Wiseman over the past few weeks, and it’s nice to hear the book discussed in person. Everyone is talking about motherhood right now , but there’s a philosophical lucidity and a profound sense of humanism in the book’s research and prose that is utterly unique. The evening at McNally Jackson is in conversation with Elizabeth Bruenig - author of On Human Slaughter ; “Incisive, compassionate, and revelatory reporting from America’s death row”. What Are Children For? in conversation with On Human Slaughter - I buy my mom a copy of the prior, and my dad a copy of the latter. Wednesday, June 12 I’m texting in a big group chat where I know almost no one - The Point Issue 32: What Are Men For x What Are Children For launch tonight at TJ Byrnes!! Men are for going to war, and children are for removing objects from small spaces, is the consensus. The party is lovely - one of the first parties I’ve enjoyed in a while. I’ve decided I’m back to enjoying parties. There’s an after party for something Tribeca Film Festival adjacent to Sovereign House and so I’m stopping by after TJ Byrnes but not staying long. I do think some things good can happen after 2am, but I’m learning not to linger. Thursday, June 13 My day is quiet, and so after work I’m walking to dinner the roundabout way. All I want to do every morning and every dusk is walk for miles and miles and miles, which I hope is a sign of a state of contemplation and not of boredom. Drinking: 2 celsius on walk, 2 martinis at dinner. Eating: many things at AMA Raw Bar - don’t remember. Dinner is nice. Meeting friends briefly at Sovereign House then home early - very good. Friday, June 14 I’m leaving a meeting uptown and I’m planning to walk home when my sister texts me that the rain is like a sheet of glass out her Lower East Side window. I have just enough time to hail a cab before the storm hits sixty blocks north. Five minutes later it’s like a sheet of glass out the window of the cab. I feel like an oracle. I feel very pleased with myself. Later, my sister comes over and we buy Black Ash and Animal Cookies ice cream from Morgenstern’s . The Black Ash stains everything dark and by this point the rain has stopped and we’re outside and washing our hands in the hose on the terrace. Later, we’re taking the subway to Brooklyn for Beckett Rosset’s Tense . It’s the best New York City sunset I’ve ever seen over the Brooklyn Bridge, and then it’s even better over the platform when we arrive. Beckett’s Tense is one of my favorite events of the year, which is something I’d like to write more about somewhere else, but which in brevity, feels very sincere and very sharp and very much like a relic of something that doesn’t quite exist anymore. I like August Lamm’s reading. I like Beckett’s reading a lot. I like the magician who performs a magic show and then reads a story about a run down roadside magic shop in the small town in Florida where he grew up. It’s half a story about the tricks of the trade. It reminds me a little of the Didion/Warhol Interview Mag “Why Can’t Everything Be Magical All The TIme” “What?” quote that everyone’s been posting this week. The quote is obviously most interesting insofar as it represents a fundamental clash of sensibilities, but it also speaks, however vaguely, to a push and pull between the preservation and the unraveling of illusions. I tell this to Beckett as I’m leaving, which I think is a sign I am tipsier than I thought because it’s really not the most astute observation. “It’s like Why Can’t Everything Just Be Magical All The Time!!” In complete earnestness, I think it’s a fair question. In complete earnestness, I find Beckett’s to be one of the most magical evenings of the year, although to say so in this context is very obviously cliche. I’m ubering home with my phone dead and my boyfriend bought an entire sheet cake from Gristedes which is sitting on the counter. CELEBRATION CAKE, it says. Cutting cake in the dark. Going to sleep. Etc etc etc. WHAT YOU SHOULD DO Thursday, June 27 at 6:30pm - Perennial NYC is hosting a reading on an Upper East Side terrace (DM for address). I will be reading , along with Kathy Joyce , Ellie Lynch , Michael Saltypickles , Nick Dove , and David Clarity . Free entry and drinks! Friday, June 28 from 6 to 9pm - SARA’S continues residency at Dunkunsthalle with a group exhibition co-presented by Espace Maurice . Titled NADJA , the exhibition features works across painting, video, sculpture, and performance “presented through the lens of Andre Breton’s infamous novel, while honoring the life of Léona Delcourt, their surreal short lived romance and the multiple intersecting mythologies, themes and narratives present within the book”. Saturday, June 29 from 10pm to late - J ulia Cooke is hosting her birthday at Gonzos , featuring a long list of DJ’s and hosts ( Ezra Marcus , Genevive Goffman , Ser Serpas , and more) Last Sunday’s Confessions was fun! The next Confessions will be this Sunday, June 30 - list of readers forthcoming. Wednesday, July 3 from 8pm til late - WordsatFlings reading at Old Flings with a lineup including Izzy Capulung , LEG5 , Peter Vack , and many others. July 5 to 14 from 10am to 6pm daily - Brooklyn Center for Theatre Research presents A Doll House , directed by John Gould Rubin , with a new translation by Royston Coppenger . The workshop will allow viewers to observe rehearsals, and engage in conversation with the director and cast. Wednesday, July 10 at 7pm - Lucky American Films x Uncensored New York presents the premiere of BRUTALIST COUTURE by Jonathan Rosado. There will be a Q+A moderated by Adam Lehrer (of Safety Propaganda) and a panel featuring Jonathan Rosado, Salomé, and Roman D’Ambrosio. After party at Home Sweet Home hosted by Label NYC , among others Thursday, July 11 from 7pm to midnight - Cracks in Pomo launches the zine vol ii with a party at The Rose . Discourse is banned - “only of dancing, drinking, and smoking”. Free Hestia cigs and Masa chips . Thursday, July 18 at KGB - Caitlin Dee is hosting a Meditations for Party Girls reading, featuring Caitlin Dee , Sophia June , Jomé Rain, Nicky Josephine , Emily Danielle , Toni Kochensparger , and a magic ritual by Sarah Potter (magic is the theme of the summer). Also Thursday, July 18 at 7pm - New York Review of Architecture celebrates the launch of issue #41 with a party at DSK Brooklyn Friday, July 19 - Beckett is hosting another TENSE event at The Locker Room . Details forthcoming. Chloe Pingeon is a writer and arts publicist based in New York. Inquiries: chloegpingeon@gmail.com

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