by Jane | May 11, 2012 | Networked New York
Our latest Networked NY Q&A is with Reed Gochberg, a doctoral student in English at Boston University. Reed studies late nineteenth-century American literature and culture and her research interests include American intellectual history and urban cultural history....
by Bryan Waterman | Sep 14, 2010 | Books, Complete, Television |
Wednesday night, when the new NYU Bookstore (726 Broadway) kicks off its inaugural programming season by featuring our Cambridge Companion to the Literature of New York, Brooklyn-based writer Caleb Crain will be reading from his piece on the literature of...
by Bryan Waterman | Mar 3, 2010 | Books, Writing New York
Our students, who are wrapping up their reading of Edith Wharton’s Age of Innocence even as I type, may find some past PWHNY entries useful. Last year, Cyrus offered a general intro to the novel and later
by Bryan Waterman | Mar 16, 2009 | Books, Film, Television, Writing New York
I’m sure some of our students are wondering if I saw tonight’s Gossip Girl/Age of Innocence crossover, and the answer’s yes. (Of course it is! Didn’t I already make my obsessions clear enough early in the semester?) I hope none of our students...
by Bryan Waterman | Feb 28, 2008 | Film, Writing New York
This is the second Scorsese film we’ve shown to our class this semester. The first was Gangs of New York, also starring recent Oscar-winner Daniel Day-Lewis, though in a very different role — or is it? In a way, as different as these films seem, they share...
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