by Cyrus | 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 Bryan | Oct 23, 2014 | Art, Cultural History, Events
Friends of our too-long moribund Writing New York site, I hope you’ll come say hello while I’m in town, briefly, to participate in the following event, which draws on a new research project I’ve undertaken re: New York in the Age of Warhol. Andy...
by Bryan | Mar 17, 2014 | Conferences, Events, Music, Neighborhood Scenes
In March 1974, a band called Television
by Cyrus | 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”...
by Cyrus | Jan 29, 2013 | Books, Events
And so, finally, we reach the end. When Moby-Dick was published in London by Richard Bentley on October 18, 1851 (using Melville’s original title,
by Cyrus | Jan 28, 2013 | Books, Events
And so we reach the climactic confrontation between Ahab and the white whale, Moby Dick. It’s a beautiful morning, which prompts Ahab to meditate on the way that feeling often overrules thinking: “What a lovely day again! Were it a new-made world, and made...
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