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Fans pumped as the Knicks and Nets are set to kick off their playoff runs
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Basketball fever is sweeping the city.
For the first time in NBA history, two New York City teams are in the playoffs during the same season, as both the Knicks and Nets play their first respective postseason games on Saturday, and fans are salivating for the action.
The Knicks will host the Boston Celtics in a 3 p.m. game, the first of a series that will play out under the dark cloud...
Read more »Writer Jim Gavin plays the man in a mercy-challenged world
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Jim Gavin, 36, has just published a hilarious and moving debut of stories about men negotiating the maze of modern masculinity and zombie economics called "Middle Men." Gavin, who has had his short stories published in ZYZZYVA, Zoetrope, The Paris Review, The Mississippi Review and The New Yorker, and who lives in Culver City, Ca., will be reading from and signing copies of Middle Men...
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