December 2011
22 posts
For months, those from D.C. looked but did not...
Me: Outward-facing introvert, editor and sometimes-freelance writer, non-snobbish intellectual into middlebrow culture. Four years working in DC has made me an expert sidewalk solicitor-avoider. I’m 30, tall, brunette, blue-eyed. A cynic, but I sometimes hope not to be. The sight of an old dog will almost instantly make me cry, but I’m good at hiding it. I have a hard time throwing away anything...
HE'LL PLAY HENDERSON TO YOUR DAHFU
Beautiful young man of good family seeks philosopher king for spirited correspondence and binge drinking. You: witty, capable war hero who reads Burke, but prefers Tocqueville. Me: well-dressed, well-behaved, likely to betray Athens to Persia. More Alcibiades than Lysis. Wrap me in your cloak.
Part poodle, part pitbull seeks same (27 years... →
HE'S LIKE MICHAEL PITT! OR CLAUDE BRASSEUR!
Way too young to self-advertise in the NYRB, but have nonetheless thought about it since Lemony Snicket was the apex of my age group’s literary consumption. Currently caught up in a sisyphean struggle to pretend I’m in Paris this holiday season. An Anna Karina look-alike with which to run through the Met wouldn’t hurt.
You have similarly anachronistic daydreams and, if not...
THE GREEN-EYED LADY PASSIONS LADY / DRESSED IN...
Foxy, slender, green-eyed woman passionate about film (making & consuming), music from gospel to lieder, dinner with friends, the smell of freshly ground coffee & chocolate seeks 60- to 75-year-old man with energy & joy. [from the new york review of books]
YOU WILL UNDOUBTEDLY DRESS AS SHERLOCK HOLMES AND,...
Well-dressed pervert seeks same for brown liquor, mystery solving.
THE LATINIST LOST IN THE LAND OF LAKES
I am: 23, male, an aspiring Classics graduate student, and a current Latin teacher seeking a man well acquainted with the Greek mode of love for ethical dat(iv)es, and perhaps also unethical, which may perhaps lead to our first conjugation. Neither tall nor short, slim build, with a love for show tunes that gels quite well with my radical left politics once I’m midway through the second...
Les réponses constituent la meilleur part de nos...
chère amie- les musées de new york sont pleins de personnes qui aiment bien flaner…que ce soit dans le parc, que ce soit aux musees, c’est comfortant de voir un couple qui se tient les mains et se régale des images qui leur apparaissent…et puis, ils prennent le café ou bien unrepas tranquille….je voudrais bien essayer de le fair avec vous! je suis d’origine belge et j’habite à new york...
ON YOUR FIRST DATE, JUST POINT OUT THAT CRIME &...
Me: A total FOB who picks up english through movies and television. Addicted to Terry Pratchett, Voltaire, Wilde, and Gibran. Goes around anonymously calling myself Voltairess because he is truly hilarious, intelligent, and worth looking up to. Still cannot quote shit from any of my favorite authors to this day. Simple, silly, laidback, easy-going, and young at heart. Books help me improve my...
THE BORING YOUNG MAN (MADE SLIGHTLY LESS BORING BY...
I am 24, an MA candidate in International Studies, and recently began living with my family again. There are more books I want to read, than I have read, and the list continues to grow in favor of the former. I am tall, thin, but not in terrific shape. I live in Denver. I volunteer at the MCA. I can alpine ski quite well, but due to financial and locational issues over the last half-decade I...
THE CITY SLICKER
Me: Creative-type who humored his quarter-life crisis by trading his T-square for a slide rule. OK fine, it was AutoCAD for Excel, but analog imagery makes for much more meaningful metonymy. Realizing now that neither spec sheets nor spreadsheets make for very good company, I’m seeking an urbanism-loving partner in crime who will validate my belief that the world should be more gridded. If...
We can't help but post the fun responses!
22-year-old male arts and culture journalist, staunchly pro-whiskey, seeks contact with _________. Well-read. Bestubbled. Cultured. Arted. Closet Gucci Mane enthusiast. Can we make this happen?
[This seems like a good moment to point out that though men seem afraid to post their own personals, they will still respond to yours.]
WHITE EDITOR SEEKS BLACK RAPPER, OR SIMILAR
Funny, smart, cool, “quirky,” “feisty” (-Phil Connors, author of Fire Season), female mag editor in search of Kanye West, Lil Wayne, or similar. Drake need not apply.
SEX ON THE BOOKS
Good-looking, book-loving woman desires manly, book-loving man. We can read our books, discuss them, analyze, memorize and quote them, even roll around on them. 64+. [from the new york review of books]
BECAUSE YOU WANT A NATALIA IN THE SHEETS, AND A...
Woman of a not-quite-certain age who carries a portrait of Pushkin (hideously framed in plastic) wherever she wanders, seeks lighthearted dalliance-unfettered flirtation with unattached man who has no aversion to Schubert as far as he knows, is intellectually buoyant, conversant in Wodehouse (“she thought every time a fairy laughed a wee babe was born”), nineteenth century German...
I DON'T THINK SHE MEANS GOING POSTAL IN THAT WAY
Prodigal Angeleno who lost the ability to tan. Strongly suspects attending grad school in London to blame for permanent pale disposition. (Thankfully not also ginger.) Got published for the first time living in New York, still writing fiction and non-fiction in LA. Circling her late twenties and quite fond of the roaring era for its style, sharp haircuts, and boozing. Personally known for all...
IT WAS UNCLEAR IF THIS WOMAN ACTUALLY WANTED US TO...
Pushing 30. Slapdash with the pith. New York something. Being such a girl about things. Introspective in the sense of being, like, self-aware?
I’m totally kidding.
THE LUDDITE RIOT GRRRL
Me: English major with sexy-librarian glasses and auburn tresses. My true love is Brontë (which one is for me to know and you to find out), but I enjoy others like Salinger, Waugh, James, Camus, and Proust. Yes, there is a “delicate sensibility” here, but at 36 years old I can keep Tennessee Williams in perspective and my wits about me. Require music, art, cinema, and the BBC. Went to one of...
WE IMAGINE HER HIKING IN FUR
Ex-Brooklynite in Southern California, queer, female, bespectacled doctoral student (25) surrounded by theatre types seeks to trade hollow hallway banter for stimulating conversation, weekend jaunts, and roll-arounds. Pretentious love of Greek prose composition, fur garments and de Certeau tempered by prodigious Dunkaroo consumption, hearty laugh, and lack of shame.
You: literary, male or female...
THE NEXT MARY KARR
19-year-old poor college kid from a small town in Central Texas with dreams of living and writing in Chicago. Spontaneous and easygoing perfectionist: lots of Dorothy Parker, even more coffee. I love musicals and will shamelessly admit to being a Gleek. Ex-strict Catholic, now strict ex-Catholic; questions of what happens after death just don’t seem important to me. Sweet, funny, corny,...
SHE WANTS YOU TO HAVE A LOW-ENERGY LIFESTYLE (THE...
Los Angeles. Formerly pretty, formerly slender, 68-year-old, retired woman, out of shape, overweight, never married, terrified of commitment, blue-eyed, grey and brown haired independent woman seeks independent man. I’d ask for fit and handsome but let’s be real. Must have sense of humor, read a lot, passsionate about eating, napping, my sweet doggie, and a low energy lifestyle. [from...
n+personals partners with the NYRB
The interns are pleased—OK, more than a little pleased—to announce that the New York Review of Books has proposed a weekly swap of classifieds between their own site and n+personals. So from now on, if you submit an ad to n+personals, you may also see it running in that bastion of classifieds, the NYRB. We don’t want to get ahead of ourselves, but—welcome to the gilded age of internet dating.