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From New York to New Orleans
by Brett Busang 07/21/2019Neighborhood: Manhattan, New Orleans
Wandering Two Cities, a Youthful Diary Edward Hopper once said that he identified all the places he’d known according to their architecture. I used to be the same way. I noticed people as backdrops to overblown dramas in light and shade. I looked past them toward ogee roof and filigreed transom; I marveled at […]
Portrait of The Bagel as a Young Man
by Thomas Beller 03/29/2004Neighborhood: Upper West Side
His hands were large. My resume lay flat on his desk. He had cleared a space amidst the clutter, and he ran one of those big, sensitive, but also violent looking hands over it again and again while he studied it, as though his hand was a scanner and would impart some key bit of […]