*Everyday Chatter

Tony Bourdain officially endorses St. Mark's Bookshop--for the "oddball, off-the-wall hipster obscure"? [TC]



Celebrate the victory to save St. Mark's Books tonight, 5:30 - 7:30, at the shop. [FB]

Good to see 20-somethings caring about books and literature--and not just using it to get laid (like some). [NYT]

Auster and Delillo at Union Square: "an iPod-studded kid asked Delillo what he thought was 'the most mundane situation' he could think of... Paul Auster, with rolling eyes, flipped another copy on to its title page, readied his pen and answered, 'Signing books at Barnes & Noble.'" [EL]

"Any poet in New York has to write found poetry because there’s so much of it around on the street." --Harvey Shapiro [Bomb]

Marty stops in at the embattled Bill's Gay 90s. [MAD]

60-year-old Sherman's BBQ of Harlem may be shuttering. [Eater]

General Bloomberg: "I have my own army in the NYPD, which is the seventh biggest army in the world." [NYO]

Where are the ruins of the Smallpox Hospital in the renderings of wahoo-new construction Bloombie wants to bring to Roosevelt Island? [Gothamist]

Fun pictures of Bloomberg looking like a megalomaniac who has lost his mind (or Joel Grey). [EVG]

Someone in the Village wasn't happy with Obama's visit:

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