by Bryan | Aug 22, 2013 | Books, Writing New York
Looking for one last, fantastic read before summer ends? This year I’ve been pitching Teju Cole’s 2011 award-winning novel Open City to anyone who’ll listen. It’s brief but still feels bursting with detailed observation, beautifully written,...
by Bryan | May 22, 2012 | People, Teaching, Writing New York
Frank O’Hara at frankohara.org & at poetryfoundation.org. Frank O
by Bryan | May 21, 2012 | Neighborhood Scenes, Teaching, Writing New York
For the past couple summers I’ve taught two versions of the same course, though with separate titles and a few tweaks that suggest multiple possibilities for ordering the material we examine. The undergrad version of the course is called Downtown Scenes,...
by Cyrus | Dec 6, 2011 | Writing New York
In our discussion of Whitman earlier this term, we talked about the way in which Ralph Waldo Emerson served as an inspiration and mentor for the young poet in the years before and just after the publication of Leaves of Grass. “I was simmering, simmering,...
by Bryan | Nov 28, 2011 | Books, Film, Writing New York
Three endings to the same story. First, the ending to William Wyler’s film The Heiress, adapted by Ruth and Augustus Goetz from their own 1947 stage adaptation of James
by Cyrus | Nov 21, 2011 | Writing New York
The first time that I lectured on Stephen Crane’s 1893 novella Maggie: A Girl of the Streets in Writing New York, I worked from the Bedford Cultural Edition, despite the fact that we’d elected to order a cheaper Signet paperback edition for the students to...
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