by Bryan Waterman | Oct 29, 2013 | Missing Video, Music, People, Writing New York
So it’s just about three days since Lou Reed died and I admit I’m kind of holding my breath, waiting to see if he rises from the tomb on the morning of the third day. It’s hard to imagine him as anything other than transformed into a more perfect...
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 | May 25, 2012 | Art, Books, People, Teaching
Joe Brainard at work. My office is perilously close to looking like this right now. p.s. You know about this, right?
by Bryan Waterman | May 22, 2012 | People, Teaching, Writing New York
Frank O’Hara at frankohara.org & at poetryfoundation.org. Frank O
by Bryan Waterman | May 28, 2011 | Music, People
Fab 5 Freddy posted this to Twitter. Filmed in NYC in the early 70s: Gil Scott-Heron, 1949-2011, died just a year after releasing the stunning record I’m New Here, his first album in 16 years. Here’s an riveting profile by Alec Wilkinson published by The...
by Bryan Waterman | May 24, 2011 | Events, Music, People
Dylan at 24, on Ginsberg’s typewriter. Happy birthday to a great American poet. I wish I time for more than just providing a few links, but there will be no shortage of Dylan commentary today. Here are a few Dylan-related things we’ve done over the last...
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