A writer in multiple modes, including fiction (A Modern Way To Die), drama (The Tattooed Man Tells All and Burning Words) and translation (most recently, Selected Prose of Heinrich von Kleist), Peter Wortsman is the recipient of the Beard's Fund Short Story Award and The Geertje Potash-Suhr Prize of the Society for Contemporary American Literature in German, and was a Holtzbrinck Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin in 2010. Also a widely published travel writer, his texts have appeared in The Best Travel Writing 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011. His forthcoming books include a travelogue/memoir, Ghost Dance in Berlin (Travelers' Tales, 2013); and Tales of the German Imagination, from The Brothers Grimm to Ingeborg Bachmann, an anthology, (Penguin Classics, 2013).
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From
Gramercy Park,
Murray Hill about
chords,
Curry Hill,
Duke Ellington,
guitar,
homeless,
intervals,
jazz,
Murray Hill,
Music,
music theory,
PianoPublished on: May 10, 2020
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From
Jackson Heights,
Uncategorized about
Bloch and Falks,
In Search of Lost Time,
kosher,
Old New York,
pork,
Refugee,
Restaurants and Bars,
sausage,
Schaller and Weber,
wurstPublished on: February 28, 2011
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Workman’s Circle Auditorium, 10016
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Madison Square Garden, 7th Ave & 32nd St, New York, NY 10001
