About Nick Curley
Jewcy Interviews: Lev Grossman
Of literature Thomas Carlyle wrote, “All that mankind has done, thought, or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.” No critic in American life today does more to excavate that magic within texts than … Read More
Jewcy Interviews: Starlee Kine
In 1997, Starlee Kine, then a bookstore clerk living in New York’s East Village, was interviewed by This American Life’s Paul Tough for a segment about her tumultuous relationship with her neighbor “Helga”. This chance meeting changed Kine’s life forever: … Read More
The Big Jewcy: Larry Smith, SMITH Mag
In an age of information influx, we seem drawn to the places online where the Internet simplifies, streamlines, and presents small wonder in bite-size portions. And yes, I did consider using "byte-size portions" before thinking better of it. Just as … Read More
The Big Jewcy: Myq Kaplan, Comedian
Find whatever Bar Mitzvah after party Myq Kaplan is going to and ride wingman as he blows your mind with slam dunk observations on the film Final Destination, vegans as "environment eaters", his self-professed "spectrum of dorkery", and that anti-drug … Read More
The Big Jewcy: Molly Surno, Cinema 16/Photographer
Molly Surno enters a Greenpoint bar with a small swagger. She’s among the surprising number of talented visual artists who as a kid trained to be a dancer. It’s visible in her manner: she sways when she walks, and illustrates … Read More
The Big Jewcy: Jami Attenberg, Writer
Get ethereal with this author (dubbed "the Joyce Carol Oates of Brooklyn" by the Huffington Post) of much blogged-about novels Instant Love, The Kept Man, and her latest The Melting Season, a road odyssey of two women on the run … Read More
The Big Jewcy: Nicole Schneit, Musician – Air Waves
Behold the frontwoman of Air Waves, who Dan Deacon last year dubbed his "favorite band" of the moment. A SUNY Purchase alum and Greenpoint resident, Schneit’s hushed voice beautifully pairs with the band’s pastoral twang, like some backroads version of … Read More
Jewcy Review: Assaf Gavron’s “Almost Dead”
That great Jewish scribe David Mamet wrote that "a dramatic experience concerned with the mundane may inform but it cannot release; and one concerned essentially with the aesthetic politics of its creators may divert or anger, but it cannot enlighten."Â … Read More