Positively Mercer Street

An interesting little read is Art Chung's article in the Village Voice about playing a home poker tournament with Positively 5th Street author James McManus. Chung's commentary about poker-loving aspiring writers cuts a little close to the bone; sorry Mr. Chung, but my love of poker comes from an addictive personality, not "overwhelming media attention" (guess I showed him). I do relate to the "grad student trying to impress the professor" tone of the piece, though. And Mr. Chung gets bonus points for actually managing to get through an article about gambling without mentioning Dostoevsky a single time, something McManus couldn't resist doing in his book... ;)