by Bryan | Aug 28, 2013 | Books, 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.
by Bryan | Nov 23, 2011 | Odds and Ends
Today’s Village Voice cover story, by the incomparable Jen Doll, tackles the age-old question of How to Be a New Yorker. The very title, riffing on a Mad Men-era guidebook by Les and Joan Rich, suggests that being a New Yorker is something learned rather than...
by Bryan | Aug 16, 2011 | Odds and Ends
We’re painfully aware how slow it’s been around here the last several weeks. We have some decent explanations, and we hope to be back up and running sooner than later. First up will be our inaugural summer book club discussion, on Jonathan Lethem’s...
by Bryan | Mar 29, 2011 | Neighborhood Scenes, Odds and Ends, Writing New York
This week in Writing New York we’re still in the early twentieth century, with looks at two artistic enclaves: bohemian Greenwich Village (just before and after World War I) and the Harlem Renaissance, the subject of Cyrus’s lecture Wednesday morning. Over...
by Bryan | Mar 14, 2011 | Music, Odds and Ends, Out and About
For the next week, while NYU is on spring break, things may continue to be a little slow around these parts. Be assured, though we’re hard at work (returning copy edits on these, for instance), we feel a little like this thanks to the midterm reprieve: Girl Walk...
by Bryan | Dec 17, 2010 | Neighborhood Scenes, Odds and Ends, Out and About
Because I sometimes only get out of my neighborhood when I’m online. Sad, I know. Calling out the Times for not knowing much about Marble Hill, where Manhattan and the Bronx meet by land. [Boogie Downer] The Times should have talked to Michael Miscione,...
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