by Cyrus Patell | Sep 16, 2012 | Books, Events
Readers of PWHNY know that Bryan and I have a thing for Melville’s Moby-Dick. And apparently we’re not alone. Today is the first day of the “Moby-Dick Big Read,” sponsored by Plymouth University in the UK in conjunction with the Plymouth...
by Cyrus Patell | Oct 24, 2011 | Writing New York
For a number of years, we offered this extra-credit question on the Writing New York final examination: “Who was Baron Axel von Klinkowstrom and what is his significance to our course?” To answer this question, you would have to have read the draft of my...
by Bryan Waterman | May 30, 2011 | Events
by Herman Melville Skimming lightly, wheeling still, The swallows fly low Over the field in clouded days, The forest-field of Shiloh
by Bryan Waterman | Feb 9, 2011 | Art, Writing New York
A little bit of Writing New York liveblogging here: Cyrus is, as I type, lecturing on Melville’s “Bartleby, the Scrivener,” which we situate in our course by taking seriously its subtitle, “A Story of Wall-street.” Today’s...
by Cyrus Patell | Dec 3, 2010 | Cultural History, Film |
Bryan and I were pleased to host a visit by Ric Burns to NYU last night, for a special screening of his most recent documentary, Into the Deep: America, Whaling & the World. Many of our readers no doubt are familiar with Burns’s monumental, eight-part New...
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