Right now we’re getting a few batches ready for an event next Monday at the New York Public Library - Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig in conversation with author John Wray (sorry, private shindig). Meanwhile, we’ve been reading Wray’s Lowboy and enjoying it quite a bit. Here’s a passage we found particularly inspired:

…his left hand held a plain brown paper bag. The bag was rolled shut but Lowboy could tell what was in it. The smell was sweet and dank and unmistakable. The thing in the bag was a Jamaican beef patty.

You probably thought it was going to be cupcakes, right? So did we. But then, 35 pages later:

The wall behind the counter was graced by a menagerie of pastel forms. Green and pink clots cupped in pleated waxpaper. Green for her afterimage, pink for his skin. He could tell by her expression that she was inspecting them closely.

“This place only makes cupcakes,” she murmured.

Yes! Finally. Wray talks more about his love of cupcakes here.