by Cyrus | Sep 20, 2015 | Events, Music
Bryan and I had the good fortune last week to be able to hear the visionary Kronos Quartet twice each during their week-long residence at NYU Abu Dhabi where we’re presently teaching. The ensemble played at NYUAD Arts Center’s Black Box...
by Bryan | Nov 22, 2014 | Books, Music
The good folks at genius.com asked me to annotate a passage from my 33 1/3 volume on Television’s Marquee Moon. Here’s what I came up with: Read
by Bryan | Oct 23, 2014 | Art, Cultural History, Events
Friends of our too-long moribund Writing New York site, I hope you’ll come say hello while I’m in town, briefly, to participate in the following event, which draws on a new research project I’ve undertaken re: New York in the Age of Warhol. Andy...
by Bryan | Mar 17, 2014 | Conferences, Events, Music, Neighborhood Scenes
In March 1974, a band called Television
by Bryan | Oct 29, 2013 | 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 Cyrus | Oct 19, 2013 | Books
Two years ago, we ran a virtual book club
by Bryan | Sep 30, 2013 | Books, Teaching
In anticipation of the NYUAD Theater Program and Theater Mitu’s presentation of MD (Or, The Whale) later this week, the Program in Literature and Creative Writing is sponsoring a marathon reading of novel, which the play takes as its inspiration. The reading...
by Bryan | Sep 12, 2013 | 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 | Sep 9, 2013 | Books, 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...
by Bryan | Sep 4, 2013 | Books, Writing New York
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,...
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