Mindy Lewis
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At Home on the Church Steps
From Upper West Side about Apartment Life, homelessness, Men, Money, neighbors, Protest, Sweet and Sour, The Politics of...Published on: 02/08/2013
I am the author of LIFE INSIDE: A Memoir (Washington Square Press, 2003), co-author of A CURIOUS LIFE: From Rebel Orphan to Innovative Scientist (Post Hill Press, 2019), editor of DIRT: The Quirks, Habits and Passions of Keeping House (Seal Press, 2009), and recipient of New Letters 2015 Essay Award. My essays and articles have appeared in Newsweek, New York Times Book Review, Lilith, Body & Soul, Poets & Writers, Arts & Letters Journal, New Letters, Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Santa Ana River Review and Many Mountains Moving. I have taught at The Writer’s Voice of the West Side Y, Hudson Valley Writers’ Center, Brooklyn College and as a visiting writer at George Mason University. These days, I enjoy walking the Upper West Side with Teddy, my canine companion.
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I wondered if a movie could produce the same terror decades on, even if I’d worked hard to forget the plot and its disquieting images. Like the severed ear lying in a field—a waxy dead thing, crawling with ants. And Dennis Hopper, huffing into a mask. Isabella Rossellini’s red mouth in eerie close-up. Not to […]
We moved to Greenwich Village in the mid-1980s, and at every landing of our fifth-floor tenement walk up there was a nose-full of tantalizing smells. This was in the very Italian section of the West Village, full of tenements that we called “V.I.V’s” or “Vertical Italian Villages.” The older folks, who sat out in front, chatting […]
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