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 Bryan Waterman | Sep 12, 2013 | Complete, Conferences, People, Writing New York |
One of the great delights of the decade Cyrus and I spent teaching our Writing New York class was the repeated opportunity to screen clips from Ric Burns’s monumental New York: A Documentary Film. Without a doubt, the highlight of that film is — for me, at...
by Bryan Waterman | Sep 9, 2013 | Books, Complete, Writing New York
Today’s installment in our discussion of Teju Cole’s novel comes from guest blogger Martha Nadell, who teaches at Brooklyn College and is at work on a literary history of Brooklyn. The author of a book on image and text in early twentieth-century African American...
by Bryan Waterman | Sep 4, 2013 | Books, Complete, Writing New York |
Today’s installment in our book club discussion comes from long-time friend-of-the-blog Sunny Stalter, an associate professor in the English Department at Auburn University. Her research examines technology in American literature and culture. Her book,...
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 Bryan Waterman | Aug 28, 2013 | Books, Complete, Odds and Ends, Writing New York
Teju Cole reads from Open City and discusses urban experience at Harvard Graduate School of Design, 2012. More book club discussion from Cyrus on Friday.
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