Morning

Activity: Site Visit of the Tenement House Museum and the Lower East Side

• Readings: Isaac Metzker, ed., A Bintel Brief: Sixty Years of Letters from the Lower East Side to the Jewish Daily Forward (Schocken 1990); Daniel Kane, “The Aesthetics of the Little” from The Lower East Side Poetry Scene in the 1960s (Berkeley: Univ. Berkeley Press, 2003); Selections from The Village Voice Reader, ed. Daniel Wolf (Grove Press, 1963). Frank O’Hara “In Memory of My Feelings” Evergreen Review (Vol. 2: no. 6, 1958).

• Audio Podcast: “Passing Stranger” (http://eastvillagepoetrywalk.org/about.html)

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Afternoon

Activity: Site visit of Gramercy Park, Union Square, and Madison Square Park
Location: Fales Library and Special Collections, New York University

Topic: Cool Realism: The New Journalism and New York Literary Culture
Seminar scholar: Daniel Worden, Rochester Institute of Technology

• Readings: Excerpt from Daniel Worden, Neoliberal Nonfictions: The Documentary Aesthetic from Joan Didion to Jay-Z; Norman Mailer, “Superman Comes to the Supermarket,” Esquire (November 1960); Joan Didion, “Insider Baseball,” New York Review of Books (27 October 1988).

• Suggested Additional Reading: Louis Menand, “It Took a Village: How The Voice Changed Journalism” New Yorker (Jan. 5, 2009).