by Cyrus Patell | Sep 20, 2015 | Events, Music
Bryan and I had the good fortune last week to be able to hear the visionary Kronos Quartet twice each during their week-long residence at NYU Abu Dhabi where we’re presently teaching. The ensemble played at NYUAD Arts Center’s Black Box...
by Cyrus Patell | Oct 19, 2013 | Books, Complete
Two years ago, we ran a virtual book club devoted to reading Jonathan Lethem’s novel Chronic City. This fall, Lethem published a new novel, Dissident Gardens, which takes us not to Brooklyn but to Queens, inspired by in part by the apartment that...
by Cyrus Patell | Aug 30, 2013 | Books, Complete |
As Bryan pointed out in last Monday’s post, Teju Cole’s novel Open City is about wandering: Cole’s Nigerian-American narrator, Julius, is a flâneur, both an observer and a participant in the life of the city, primarily New York, but also — for a set of chapters that...
by Cyrus Patell | Mar 11, 2013 | Complete, Cultural History, This Day in New York History
Today is the 365th anniversary of the famous “goats and hogs ordinance” passed in New Netherland under the governorship of Peter Stuyvesant. Here’s the text of the ordinance: Whereas the Honble Director General and Council of New Netherland have daily seen and...
by Cyrus Patell | Feb 4, 2013 | Books, Events
Last week, I had the privilege of participating in “The Final Pursuit,” a panel discussion at Plymouth University celebrating the “Moby-Dick Big Read” project. My co-panelists were Peninsula Arts director Sarah Chapman; “Big Read”...
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