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Lou Reed, 1942-2013

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...
In memoriam: Marshall Berman, 1940-2013

In memoriam: Marshall Berman, 1940-2013

by Bryan Waterman | Sep 12, 2013 | Complete, Conferences, People, Writing New York | 1 comment

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...
Post-9/11 novel: Open City Book Club, part 4

Post-9/11 novel: Open City Book Club, part 4

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...

The View from Above: Open City Book Club, Part 3

by Bryan Waterman | Sep 4, 2013 | Books, Complete, Writing New York | 1 comment

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,...

The city as palimpsest

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.
Elastic time: Open City book club, part 1

Elastic time: Open City book club, part 1

by Bryan Waterman | Aug 26, 2013 | Books, Complete, Writing New York | 1 comment

From its first sentence I had a hunch that Teju Cole’s Open City (2011) would have been a perfect fit for the Writing New York syllabus Cyrus and I tinkered with for almost a decade, and when we eventually take up the course again — Inshalla — I take very seriously...
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