good FRIENDS WHO WRITE
Jack Pendarvis
Maggie Estep
Nelly Reifler
Elizabeth Crane
Fiona Maazel
Janice Erlbaum
Stephen Elliott
Laurie Sandell
Alison Smith
Hannah Tinti
Darin Strauss
Wendy S. Walters
Sheila Heti
Colson Whitehead
Robert Lopez
Thisbe Nissen

good ARTISTS
Thomson and Craighead
Leah Garnett
Danielle Spencer
Katie Merz
Margaux Williamson
Astrid Cravens

good BOOKSTORES
Escapist Books
Reading Frenzy
Powells

good FILMMAKERS
Hal Hartley
Sadie Benning
Todd Haynes
Jonathan Caouette
John Cameron Mitchell
Kelly Reichert
Mike Leigh
Ken Loach
Steve Bognar
Julia Reichert

good MUSIC
David Byrne
Sandy Bell
Katell Keineg
Luakabop
Kate Rusby
Sam Amidon
Cynthia Hopkins
Sufjan Stevens
The Little Death

good ADVICE
Readerville

good SPACES
The Writers Room
Paragraph
The MacDowell Colony
Yaddo
The Stone
Issue Project Room
Joe's Pub

good PUBLISHERS
Softskull Press
Akashic Books
Macadam Cage

good MAGAZINES
Found
Namarupa
Ready Made
Swink

good BOOKS
Play it as it Lays Joan Didion
Jesus' Son Denis Johnson
Light Years James Salter
The Member of the Wedding Carson McCullers
Loverboy Victoria Redel

good IDEAS
CLMP
TED
NYPL LIVE

good COMEDIAN
Todd Barry

good COMICS
Matt Madden

Jessica Abel
Scott McCloud

good PAPER DRESSES
MPH-NYC

good RANDOM THINGS THAT I LIKE
52 Projects
Dietch Project
Printed Matter
Recycled Books
Scrapatorium
Donald Barthelme page
Brooklyn Vegan
Oh My Rockness
Pitchfork