Morning
Topic: Independent Work
Luncheon: The Algonquin Hotel (59 West 44th St)
Topic: New York Women Writers and Modern Magazine Culture
Seminar scholar: Catherine Keyser, University of South Carolina
Reading: Playing Smart: New York Women Writers and Modern Magazine Culture (New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 2010); Dorothy Parker, “The Garter” (August 31, 1928, New Yorker, 17-18).
Suggested Additional Readings: Ben Yagoda, About Town: The New Yorker and the World It Made (London: Duckworth, 2000)
Afternoon
Activity: Site tour of the Condé Nast Building and Exploration of its Archives (Freedom Tower)
Reading: Christoph Lindner, “Skylines” from Imagining New York City: Literature, Urbanism, and the Visual Arts, 1890-1940 (NY: Oxford, 2015).
Suggested Additional Reading: Michael Lesy “Life Begins” in A New Literary History of America, eds. Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors (Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2009) 714-719.