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 en...
https://ahistoryofnewyork.com/2015/09/kronos-quartet-at-nyuad-and-nyc/
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
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...
In March 1974, a band called Television
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 h...
Two years ago, we ran a virtual book club devoted to reading Jonathan Lethem’s novel Chronic City. This fall, Lethem published a new novel, Dissident Gardens, which takes us not to Brookly...
https://ahistoryofnewyork.com/2013/10/jonathan-lethem-goes-to-queens/
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 readi...
https://ahistoryofnewyork.com/2013/09/moby-dick-marathon-live-stream/
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 Fi...
https://ahistoryofnewyork.com/2013/09/in-memoriam-marshall-berman-1940-2013/
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 auth...
https://ahistoryofnewyork.com/2013/09/post-911-novel-open-city-book-club-part-4/
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 examin...
https://ahistoryofnewyork.com/2013/09/the-view-from-above-open-city-book-club-part-3/