by Annie | Feb 14, 2012 | Uncategorized
These papers focus on the ways authors’ neighborhoods inform their work. 1:30
by Cyrus Patell | Jan 13, 2011 | City on Stage, Pop Culture, Uncategorized |
Last week my J-Term class went to the Whitney Museum to see the exhibition Modern Life: Edward Hopper and His Time, which is on display through April 10. In our course, Hopper represents one strain of what William B. Scott and Peter M. Rutkoff call “New York...
by Bryan Waterman | Apr 8, 2010 | Uncategorized |
In response to yesterday’s post about the Beats and racial performance/identification, I received an email from a reader asking about LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka, obviously the most crucial contact point between Beat culture and black consciousness. It may be worth...
by Bryan Waterman | Nov 2, 2009 | Odds and Ends, Uncategorized
Late in the semester when we teach Writing New York, I give a lecture on Ginsberg’s Howl that situates it — especially the long attack on the burst of midtown skyscrapers as the heathen god Moloch — within the history of mid-century “urban...
by Cyrus Patell | Oct 31, 2009 | Odds and Ends, Uncategorized
Stuyvesant Town Oval, October 31, 2009
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