The 'Ghost' and the Gray Lady

Multi-talented Ed Park -- novelist, Believer editor, mensch -- is proclaimed the "Wizard of Whimsy" in the Times today for his mischievous weekly newsletter, The New-York Ghost, which occasionally features phantasmal photography by yours truly. (Speaking of photos -- love those raffish forelocks, Ed!)

Brooklyn Book Festival 2007

Jonathan Lethem, Liesl Schillinger and Jonathan Safran Foer talking at St Francis College. Rob Sheffield and Ed Park on the main stage. Rev Run formerly of Run DMC (right)

Brooklyn Book Fest Alert

Esteemed friend of BIB and Dizzies proprietor Ed Park will be appearing at this Sunday's Brooklyn Book Festival: 5:00 p.m. Everyone's a (Former) Critic Three music and arts critics known for their humor discuss what it means to be a critic and the art of writing beyond the review. Featuring popular essayist, memoirist, critic and soon-to-be novelist Chuck Klosterman, Rolling Stone music critic and new memoirist Rob Sheffield, and Believer editor and former [name of publication redacted] editor/critic Ed Park, whose comic novel Personal Days will be released in 2008. Above: a rare still from Ed's 1988 audition for the role of Knox Overstreet in Dead Poets Society

Rooms of Their Own, Cont.

Friends of BIB Lynne Tillman and Ed Park -- he of the excellent minty-green writer's room at left -- read with Lore Segal on Wednesday to celebrate the 100th issue of BOMB magazine. The details: PARK LIT August 1st 6:30pm Tompkins Square Park Central area, entrance: 7th St. btw Aves. A & B

Crush

The BIB household loves us some Michael Cera, so last night's preview screening of Superbad -- in the company of noted critic and author Edward Lionheart, no less -- was our very own Rites of Spring. (Image from clarkandmichael.com)