In honor of the annual celebration of decadence and (this year) host to the $200k "Algonquin round table experience."
The Complete Penguin Classics: "Only" $8,047 on Amazon (plus applicable storage charges) for 1,082 books encompassing the greatest works of Western literature. Fun fact: According to Amazon, the bestselling volume out of the bunch is John Steinbeck's THE GRAPES OF WRATH, which I happen to own in Penguin edition.
Cormac McCarthy's typewriter: Of course, that depends on whether the anonymous buyer who just picked it up for $254,000 at Christie's is willing to sell. On the other hand, he wrote THE ROAD and BLOOD MERIDIAN on it. P.S. It doesn't work.
Tiffany & Co. silver bookmark: So much classier than my usual "envelope the ConEd bill came in" accessory.
Anthropologie's A Rather Novel Collection fragrances: They smell like tea, not books, but this inaugural collection ($48 for each of 6 scents) comes in book-shaped packaging. In other words, they'll look great on your existing shelves.
Tickets to "Gatz" at the American Rep in Cambridge, Mass.: Gather 'round, your weirdo aunt is going to tell you a theatre story. Once upon a time, a Brooklyn-based theatre company wrote a 6-hour play in which THE GREAT GATSBY is read verbatim in a modern office setting. And there was much rejoicing, because it was supposed to be awesome. Then the Fitzgerald estate stepped in and said they couldn't do it in New York, because they'd given the rights to someone else, and the little would-be theatre critic went home and felt pretty fucking angry actually, which passion surprised her a little but that is Art, friends. Anyway, that company, Elevator Repair Service, went on to do that play (called "Gatz") in Philadelphia in 2007 to raves all around, and now they are doing it in Cambridge at the American Repertory Theatre Jan. 7-Feb. 7. You can buy tickets in two parts or see both sections of the play on one weekend day (that's what the little would-be theatre critic would do).
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Only one hour for a dinner break? Also, shouldn't it be a "boxed supper" if it's six in the evening?
It should be supper, but I think the idea is that you buy the boxed meal and stay close to or in the theatre to eat. I've only been to one of these Major Theatrical Events and they didn't sell any food in the intervals. I think I ran out for Subway, but I brought my own white tablecloth!
You know what city the ERS took "Gatz" to when they had to leave New York? Minneapolis, which is where the Guthrie had just done their production which the Fitzgerald estate had approved (and which never, of course, transferred to New York). Not only that, but they did it in the Guthrie's former building. So weird.
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