alphabetically After suffering from a bit of the blahs, due to missing my cabin and spending a bit too much time in the distracted city, I’ve regained my appreciation – for whatever reason – for the texture of city life again. Yesterday a friend lured me away from a successful day of writing to go to […]
Category Archives: New York City
Fritz Lang at the Film Forum.
29-Jan-11Being a man of no diplomatic facility, I have a compensating fascination for slithery “statesmen”: and since I always love extremes, it makes sense that I should be drawn to the most reptilian of them all, Charles Maurice Talleyrand. Most curious to me is the fact that the one interruption to his long career of […]
Winter on Staten Island.
22-Dec-10The Staten Island book is a selection of the many essays I wrote about Staten Island life while living there. Not all could be fit into the scope of the published book. The following one, “Winter,” is one of four essays on the seasons; Autumn is found here. WINTER Who never ate his bread in […]
Cogito ergo doleo.
16-Dec-10Graffito in the 14th street F station. Pretty smart graffiti artist. “I think therefore I hurt.”
Profile of Henry Romp in Gothamist.
07-Dec-10Another one of the treeseller pieces I wrote for Gothamist. http://gothamist.com/2010/12/07/the_view_from_the_streets_3_henry_r.php
New York City’s Christmas Tree Vendors.
30-Nov-10The first of five pieces I wrote for Gothamist on NYC Christmas tree sellers went up today… if you have stories or tips send them my way, as I’ll keep tinkering with the later pieces as the season progresses.
The World’s Toniest Prison Site.
25-Nov-10I walked all day in the city yesterday, starting at 86th street on the East Side and walking up to 125th and Broadway, then all the way down Broadway to Penn Station, talking to all the Christmas tree vendors I met. The main thing I learned is that they’re undocumented migrant workers and very shy […]
On Saturday December 4th the Crumpled Press will be celebrating its first five years with a party at Cabinet Magazine’s space in Brooklyn. Tony Grafton will be talking, I’ll be reading, and Regina Granne will be exhibiting. Polymath D. Graham Burnett will be moderating. There will be music by the Matt Panayides group. There will […]
The Middle Class.
03-Feb-11http://vintagegoodness.com/new-goodness-at-auction-on-ebay-this-week/ Teapartiers and Ron Paul types talk of a minimalist government whose sole function is the protection of basic rights; everything else, they say, is not a concern of government. But all governments throughout history have had another role, which is not protective so much as promotive: government favors some things and cultivates them. This is […]