EVENTS: W'burg author evicted (with 200 others)

Irony's a bitch.

Williamsburg author Jami Attenberg, who was nice enough to recently show Metromix around her 'hood and give us a tour of the area's more underappreciated landmarks (all featured in her new book "The Kept Man"), came home from her book tour the other night to find... well, let her explain it.

From Jami's blog:

"I got home and found I got fucking evicted and really I just don't care about anything right now but finding a home for my cat and a storage space for my stuff and an apartment for myself that isn't going to cost a fortune and require me to live in a box. We all got evicted. The whole building. It started with a matzo factory in the basement that was in violation of every code like ever, and then the sprinkler system, and then whoa, looks like we're not zoned for live/use after all.

Don't worry: The irony of writing a book in part about the gentrification of Williamsburg, going out on book tour for it, only to return and be ejected from it likely forever, DOES NOT ELUDE ME.

So forgive me if I skip the whimsy for a few days while I try to figure out my life. I've been running on empty for ten days now, and I guess I'll just have to work with that a little bit longer."

AM New York cites fire code issues and the lack of a Certificate of Occupancy as the reasons. 

In any case, Jami will be reading tonight (Wednesday) at the Boxcar Lounge and then again on Thursday at Pete's Candy Store. Go show her some love...and maybe offer her a sublet.