Crying the News: A History of New York’s Newsboys

Lectures

Nov 6

Written By Matthew Joseph

Vincent Di Girolamo

Reading: Excerpt from Crying the News

Suggested Readings: David M. Henkin, City Reading: Written Words and Public Spaces in Antebellum New York (Columbia UP, 1998); Edward L. Widmer. Young America: The Flowering of Democracy in New York City (Oxford UP, 1999).

Matthew Joseph

Melville Among the Magazines

Dorothy Parker, Smart Magazines, and the Susceptible Body