Gemma Sieff in The Paris Review: ‘Funny Bar’s caliginous interior soon filled up with a young and attractive crowd gathering to toast the launch of Readme, a new dating app aimed at people who can, and maybe actually do, read books.’

And: ‘Readme is the brainchild of the brand strategist and creative director Emily Segal, in collab with Banu Guler, the founder and CEO of the astrology app Co–Star. They cohosted the party with the internet cynosure Caroline Calloway, the novelist Stephanie Wambugu, [et cetera].’ The app claims that ‘Our matching model is grounded in Lacanian psycholinguistics. It uses your language preferences to analyze how your desire is organized.’

As well: ‘My boyfriend had abandoned the line outside Funny Bar to stand in the line outside Katz’s Delicatessen, a more straightforward meat market.’

Organize your desire. Pick your meat market carefully. Disaster and desire are waiting for you.

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