Tag: Jason Diamond

Jason Diamond moves into a new apartment and adopts a dog that begins terrorizing his neighbors.

Jason Diamond analyzes his obsession with Vintage Contemporaries paperbacks from the 80s.

Five stories about movies, for your reading pleasure.

Jason Diamond road trips from Jacksonville to Key West trying to get a handle on the state where much of his family has settled.

At Harper’s Bazaar, Jason Diamond offers a look back at the “literary brat pack–Jay McInerney, Bret Easton Ellis, Tama Janowitz and a group of other writers in the 1980s as famous for their coke-fueled late nights at the Odeon as they were for publishing celebrated novels before the age of thirty.

Keeping a place that serves drinks open is a difficult task no matter where you do it. As the bartender at my current favorite local bar, Sharlene’s on Flatbush in Brooklyn, told me, “You need to get at least half a million to open a bar in New York anymore. You need investors and shit,” […]

“Sometimes people act like children,” my boss told me the first day she designated me the cupcake bouncer. “So you have to treat them like children.” That was the motto of Magnolia when I worked there. Nobody cared about their job; I was one of the four people I knew who worked there and had […]