
How to throw a party
In this exclusive portfolio from Document’s Fall/Winter 2024–25 issue, NYC’s nightlife leaders share their insights and origins alongside an essay by Geoffrey Mak exploring autonomy...

Document Launches Fall/Winter 2024–25: A New Perspective
...scenes, talking not only with the DJs but the bookers, lighting designers, safety monitors, and others who create what Geoffrey Mak calls “quasi-autonomous zones” where...

Fine Print: Poetry by any means necessary
...found more agreeable than a folksy six-string), May’s literary events got weird, loud, hypnotic, and even sticky. Photograph by Danny Scales Friday, May 3 Geoffrey...

Even undead, Joan Didion won’t back down
...some news here. Nobody asked for this, but here’s what happened. Geoffrey Mak: When you died, I was relieved. I felt like I was able...

Confronting emerging mythologies from the striptease to gang wars to ‘The Sims’
...who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.” The Writer on Vacation by Geoffrey Mak While the optics of Instagram are coded as autofictional,...

Bookmarked: Everything the Document editors watched, read, ate, bought, and listened to in April
...at Nowadays: Zoë Beery and Geoffrey Mak co-founded this event series, featuring readings on what we love about “nightlife, dancing, techno… but also about how...
