by Cyrus Patell | Apr 28, 2010 | Books, Writing New York
Lytle Shaw is the author of the chapter “Whitman’s Urbanism” in the Cambridge Companion. He is Associate Professor of English at NYU, where he teaches courses on such topics as “New York Poetry and the New Left,” “Theorizing the...
by Cyrus Patell | Apr 23, 2010 | Books, Writing New York
Martha Jane Nadell, the author of the “Writing Brooklyn” chapter of the Cambridge Companion, is Associate Professor of English at Brooklyn College of The City University of New York. Martha received both her bachelor’s degree in Afro-American Studies...
by Bryan Waterman | Apr 19, 2010 | Film, Writing New York |
Actually, that’s from Bananas (1971). How about this, then? We do have some links to old PWHNY posts on Woody Allen’s Manhattan (1979), which our students are watching for class this week. I’ve written here and elsewhere about the list, at the...
by Bryan Waterman | Apr 16, 2010 | Books, Events
We’ll be officially launching the Cambridge Companion to the Literature of New York at Bowery Poetry Club, Sunday, May 2, 8-10 pm. All are welcome; no cover charge for this event. Cambridge UP will have plenty of books on hand at a discount. We’ll have a...
by Cyrus Patell | Apr 13, 2010 | Books, Writing New York
Robert Lawson-Peebles, who contributed the chapter “From British Outpost to American Metropolis” to the Cambridge Companion, taught at Oxford, Princeton, and Aberdeen, before moving to Exeter University, where he held the post of
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