Shalom Auslander

Radar Party: Everyone Looks Like Someone Who Knows Someone Who Was Invited

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Around 9pm at the New Museum on Bowery, Radar editor Maer Roshan, dressed in an extremely well-fitting John Varvatos suit, was standing next to the bar. The suit was dark, but it wasn't entirely clear what color it was in a dimly lit room on the ground floor.

Mr. Roshan's magazine was throwing a party intended to honor "the most exciting rogues, renegades, and rule-breakers of the year." Film-maker Craig Brewer, writer Shalom Auslander, and Squid and the Whale star Jesse Eisenberg, among other rogues, renegades, and rule-breakers, were in attendance.

As Mr. Roshan surveyed the room, he considered the best time of year to host a party. "Summer, I think."  read more »

To Snip or Not to Snip—That’s Shalom’s Question

William Blake’s <i>Job Confessing His Presumption to God Who Answers From the Whirlwind</i>.
William Blake’s Job Confessing His Presumption to God Who Answers From the Whirlwind.

Shalom Auslander has written a memoir centering on his pangs over getting his newborn boy’s member snipped.  read more »