Osh Bosch B'Gosh
Disorders, crash-outs, pop-ups, new books
If you like my scene reporting here, you might want to subscribe to the Eckhaus Latta newsletter, because for their next one, I wrote about visiting yet another suburban mall, my new favorite bodega drink, and ChiBeCa’s hottest new club, Gosh—which I just now realized should have been called Bosch, seeing as it is clearly Hieronymus-themed. But because the upholstery print is actually a “contemporary” interpretation (an art copyright loophole?), they took a Jackie Jormp-Jomp route. Speculation, of course.
I even went in and bolded some names, which everyone seems to love, but as with so many press releases I’ve written for brands and artists, I
refused to
bulletpoint.
No one told me that If I Had Legs I’d Kick You (2025) makes a great companion piece to Ben Lerner’s Transcription (2026). Both are half “about” parenting a little girl with on-the-rise psychiatric diagnosis ARFID, or avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (not named as such in the former), and neither make this child their protagonist. Both are also “about” what it means that this issue is one for this particular age, failings of technology and therapy, disconnectedness in hyper-connectivity, nobody ever even trying to understand—but funny.
