Day 7, JUNE 29, 2020
Morning Session
10:00 AM
New York Modernism in the Magazines
Seminar scholars: Adam McKible, John Jay College, and Suzanne Churchill, Davidson College
Read: Suzanne W. Churchill and Adam McKible, “Introduction,” Little Magazines & Modernism: New Approaches (Intro): 3-14; Churchill and McKible, "Modernism in Magazines” (Oxford Handbook of Modernisms, 335-351); McKible, “Young Black Joes and Old Negroes: Containing Black Modernity in The Saturday Evening Post”; Irvin S. Cobb, J. Poindexter, Colored (Chs. 2, 9, and 21); Mina Loy: Navigating the Avant-Garde (Manifesto, Project Overview, Susan Rosenbaum, “Topsy-Turvy Aesthetics: Mina Loy, Jazz, Surrealism, & Race”, DH ToolBox); Others (July 1916).
Afternoon Session
2:00 PM
Virtual Tour of Union Square and Madison Square Park and Virtual Tour of The West Village
Tour Leader: Mark Noonan, New York City College of Technology
Read: Willa Cather’s “Wagner Matinee” and “Coming Eden Bower”; Joseph Mitchell’s “McSorley’s Old Ale House”; Marianne Moore’s “Granite and Steel”; Christopher La Casse, “‘Scrappy and Unselective’: Rising Wartime Paper Costs and The Little Review” and “Little Review: Wartime Advances and Retreats”; The Little Review, April 1920 and The Little Review, July 1920; e. e. cumming’s “I was Sitting in McSorley’s”