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Author : Stephen Crane
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book George's Mother written by Stephen Crane and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Benedict Giamo
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 9781587290800
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (98 download)
Download or read book On the Bowery written by Benedict Giamo and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As both theme and place, the Bowery has been rich in meaning, evocative in association, long in development, and representative of the inherent conflict between culture and subculture. This award-winning interdisciplinary study puts in perspective the social meaning and cultural significance of the Bowery from both historical and contemporary outlooks, spanning the fields of American literature and social history, culture studies, symbolic anthropology, ethnography, and social psychology. "On the Bowery" has special relevance in providing continuity for the systems of thought and methods of intervention that influence responses to the modern condition of homelessness in American cities today.
Author : Andreas Braddan
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1491725613
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (917 download)
Download or read book R&J—A Bowery Tale written by Andreas Braddan and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2014-08-05 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laser Lights! Pounding Club Music! Ecstatic Dancing! And SHAKESPEARE? Multiple versions of Shakespeares iconic Romeo and Juliet have delighted the public over the years. Its message of passionate, idealistic young love never fails to inspire. Now, half a century after the transformational West Side Story, the theater world cries out for an innovative play that addresses todays dynamic multi-cultural LGBT social setting. In lifes game, sexual persuasion, gender, creed or ethnicity should not matter. Living life matters. Love matters. Open your heart and mind and imagination to a bold new Musical Dramedy that reads like a novel and brings fresh energy and meaning to a treasured storyline. Welcome to an irreversible new reality. R&J A BOWERY TALE
Author : Sue Tilley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780340693100
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (931 download)
Download or read book Leigh Bowery written by Sue Tilley and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephen Crane
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)
Download or read book Bowery Tales written by Stephen Crane and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Benjamin Weissman
Publisher : Akashic Books
ISBN 13 : 1617750905
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (177 download)
Download or read book Headless written by Benjamin Weissman and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2004-02-01 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of short fiction that’s “fearless, fun, and sometimes filthy” (Alice Sebold, bestselling author of The Lovely Bones). Called “wildly inventive, profane, and hilarious” by Bret Easton Ellis, these short stories from the author of the cult classic Dear Dead Person head in countess surprising directions—from a skiing Hitler on the bunny slope, to a man dealing with dubbing porn tapes and cleaning up an overflowing toilet, to the sex lives of bears. “Surprising, rollicking and clever, but not for the faint of heart . . . Truly original stories.” —Publishers Weekly “[A] playful mélange of erotic black comedy and domestic pathos, dysfunctional families and all-too-functional men, dictators and lumberjacks. Weissman is an expert juggler of tone.” —Los Angeles Times
Author : David Isay
Publisher : Random House (NY)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Flophouse written by David Isay and published by Random House (NY). This book was released on 2000 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book takes you to places you think you don't want to enter, to people you think you don't want to meet, to lives you think you don't want to live--and makes you rethink all your assumptions. It reveals the tremendous strength and humanity of those who are usually ignored. And as you pay attention, your own humanity expands." ---Susan Stamberg, special correspondent, National Public Radio In its heyday, close to one hundred thousand men found shelter each night in flophouses along America's largest and most infamous skid row, the Bowery. Today, only a handful of flops are left, their tiny five- and ten-dollar-a-night rooms home to fewer than a thousand men, mostly long-time residents. In a handful of years, this world will be gone. In Flophouse, documentarians David Isay and Stacy Abramson and photographer Harvey Wang chronicle this vanishing world through the voices and portraits of a number of those residents, interspersed with photographs of their surroundings. The men come from all manner of backgrounds, and the rich variety of the tales they tell is a testament to the number of ways the bottom can fall out of life in America, even in prosperous times. This book warrants comparison with Walker Evans and James Agee's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, but the authors were inspired most directly by Joseph Mitchell, who wrote about some of these same flophouses with an honest warmth and an acceptance of life as it's found. Shimmering with humanity and utterly devoid of false sentiment, Flophouse is a powerful reminder that even on the margins, life defies all attempts at reduction.
Author : Stephen Paul DeVillo
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 151072687X
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Bowery written by Stephen Paul DeVillo and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From peglegged Peter Stuyvesant to CBGB’s, the story of the Bowery reflects the history of the city that grew up around it. It was the street your mother warned you about—even if you lived in San Francisco. Long associated with skid row, saloons, freak shows, violence, and vice, the Bowery often showed the worst New York City had to offer. Yet there were times when it showed its best as well. The Bowery is New York’s oldest street and Manhattan’s broadest boulevard. Like the city itself, it has continually reinvented itself over the centuries. Named for the Dutch farms, or bouweries, of the area, the path’s lurid character was established early when it became the site of New Amsterdam’s first murder. A natural spring near the Five Points neighborhood led to breweries and taverns that became home to the gangs of New York—the “Bowery B’hoys,” “Plug Uglies,” and “Dead Rabbits.” In the Gaslight Era, teenaged streetwalkers swallowed poison in McGurk’s Suicide Hall. A brighter side to the street was reflected in places of amusement and culture over the years. A young P.T. Barnum got his start there, and Harry Houdini learned showmanship playing the music halls and dime museums. Poets, singers, hobos, gangsters, soldiers, travelers, preachers, storytellers, con-men, and reformers all gathered there. Its colorful cast of characters includes Peter Stuyvesant, Steve Brodie, Carry Nation, Stephen Foster, Stephen Crane, and even Abraham Lincoln. The Bowery: The Strange History of New York’s Oldest Street traces the full story of this once notorious thoroughfare from its pre-colonial origins to the present day.
Author : Bill Hayes
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1620404958
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (24 download)
Download or read book Insomniac City written by Bill Hayes and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-02-14 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amazon's Best Biographies and Memoirs of the Year List A moving celebration of what Bill Hayes calls "the evanescent, the eavesdropped, the unexpected" of life in New York City, and an intimate glimpse of his relationship with the late Oliver Sacks. "A beautifully written once-in-a-lifetime book, about love, about life, soul, and the wonderful loving genius Oliver Sacks, and New York, and laughter and all of creation."--Anne Lamott Bill Hayes came to New York City in 2009 with a one-way ticket and only the vaguest idea of how he would get by. But, at forty-eight years old, having spent decades in San Francisco, he craved change. Grieving over the death of his partner, he quickly discovered the profound consolations of the city's incessant rhythms, the sight of the Empire State Building against the night sky, and New Yorkers themselves, kindred souls that Hayes, a lifelong insomniac, encountered on late-night strolls with his camera. And he unexpectedly fell in love again, with his friend and neighbor, the writer and neurologist Oliver Sacks, whose exuberance--"I don't so much fear death as I do wasting life," he tells Hayes early on--is captured in funny and touching vignettes throughout. What emerges is a portrait of Sacks at his most personal and endearing, from falling in love for the first time at age seventy-five to facing illness and death (Sacks died of cancer in August 2015). Insomniac City is both a meditation on grief and a celebration of life. Filled with Hayes's distinctive street photos of everyday New Yorkers, the book is a love song to the city and to all who have felt the particular magic and solace it offers.
Author : Greg Young
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1612435769
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (124 download)
Download or read book The Bowery Boys written by Greg Young and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-06-21 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uncover fascinating, little-known histories of the five boroughs in The Bowery Boys’ official companion to their popular, award-winning podcast. It was 2007. Sitting at a kitchen table and speaking into an old karaoke microphone, Greg Young and Tom Meyers recorded their first podcast. They weren’t history professors or voice actors. They were just two guys living in the Bowery and possessing an unquenchable thirst for the fascinating stories from New York City’s past. Nearly 200 episodes later, The Bowery Boys podcast is a phenomenon, thrilling audiences each month with one amazing story after the next. Now, in their first-ever book, the duo gives you an exclusive personal tour through New York’s old cobblestone streets and gas-lit back alleyways. In their uniquely approachable style, the authors bring to life everything from makeshift forts of the early Dutch years to the opulent mansions of The Gilded Age. They weave tales that will reshape your view of famous sites like Times Square, Grand Central Terminal, and the High Line. Then they go even further to reveal notorious dens of vice, scandalous Jazz Age crime scenes, and park statues with strange pasts. Praise for The Bowery Boys “Among the best city-centric series.” —New York Times “Meyers and Young have become unofficial ambassadors of New York history.” —NPR “Breezy and informative, crowded with the finest grifters, knickerbockers, spiritualists, and city builders to stalk these streets since back when New Amsterdam was just some farms.” —Village Voice “Young and Meyers have an all-consuming curiosity to work out what happened in their city in years past, including the Newsboys Strike of 1899, the history of the Staten Island Ferry, and the real-life sites on which Martin Scorsese’s Vinyl is based.” —The Guardian
Author : G. R. Thompson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444344250
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (443 download)
Download or read book Reading the American Novel 1865 - 1914 written by G. R. Thompson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-07-28 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An indispensable tool for teachers and students of American literature, Reading the American Novel 1865-1914 provides a comprehensive introduction to the American novel in the post-civil war period. Locates American novels and stories within a specific historical and literary context Offers fresh analyses of key selected literary works Addresses a wide audience of academics and non-academics in clear, accessible prose Demonstrates the changing mentality of 19th-century America entering the 20th century Explores the relationship between the intellectual and artistic output of the time and the turbulent socio-political context
Author : Trinie Dalton
Publisher : Akashic Books
ISBN 13 : 9781888451863
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (518 download)
Download or read book Wide Eyed written by Trinie Dalton and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of Dennis Cooper's Little House on the Bowery series, this collection of stories is told by a woman compelled to divulge her secrets, fantasies, and obsessions.
Author : Edna Nahshon
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231541074
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book New York’s Yiddish Theater written by Edna Nahshon and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-08 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early decades of the twentieth century, a vibrant theatrical culture took shape on New York City's Lower East Side. Original dramas, comedies, musicals, and vaudeville, along with sophisticated productions of Shakespeare, Ibsen, and Chekhov, were innovatively staged for crowds that rivaled the audiences on Broadway. Though these productions were in Yiddish and catered to Eastern European, Jewish audiences (the largest immigrant group in the city at the time), their artistic innovations, energetic style, and engagement with politics and the world around them came to influence all facets of the American stage. Vividly illustrated and with essays from leading historians and critics, this book recounts the heyday of "Yiddish Broadway" and its vital contribution to American Jewish life and crossover to the broader American culture. These performances grappled with Jewish nationalism, labor relations, women's rights, religious observance, acculturation, and assimilation. They reflected a range of genres, from tear-jerkers to experimental theater. The artists who came of age in this world include Stella Adler, Eddie Cantor, Jerry Lewis, Sophie Tucker, Mel Brooks, and Joan Rivers. The story of New York's Yiddish theater is a tale of creativity and legacy and of immigrants who, in the process of becoming Americans, had an enormous impact on the country's cultural and artistic development.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (4 download)
Download or read book The Editor written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Nagel
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470655429
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (76 download)
Download or read book The American Short Story Handbook written by James Nagel and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-03-02 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a concise yet comprehensive treatment of the American short story that includes an historical overview of the topic as well as discussion of notable American authors and individual stories, from Benjamin Franklin’s “The Speech of Miss Polly Baker” in 1747 to “The Joy Luck Club”. Includes a selection of writers chosen not only for their contributions of individual stories but for bodies of work that advanced the boundaries of short fiction, including Washington Irving, Sarah Orne Jewett, Stephen Crane, Jamaica Kincaid, and Tim O’Brien Addresses the ways in which American oral storytelling and other narrative traditions were integral to the formation and flourishing of the short story genre Written in accessible and engaging prose for students at all levels by a renowned literary scholar to illuminate an important genre that has received short shrift in scholarly literature of the last century Includes a glossary defining the most common terms used in literary history and in critical discussions of fiction, and a bibliography of works for further study
Author : Gavin Jones
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520214218
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Strange Talk written by Gavin Jones and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1999-10-19 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[Jones] links obscure forays into dialectology with familiar canonical works of literature in surprising and innovative ways. He also has some astute insights into the politics of language in this country—a topic as current now as it was during the period about which he writes."—Shelly Fisher Fishkin, University of Texas, Austin
Author : Victoria Thompson
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 110198712X
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Murder in the Bowery written by Victoria Thompson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The latest Gaslight Mystery from the bestselling author of Murder in Morningside Heights finds Sarah Brandt and Frank Malloy searching for a connection between a murdered newsie and a high society woman with dangerous habits. Frank Malloy’s latest client is the well-dressed Will Bert. He’s searching for his brother, a newsboy named Freddie, so he can share his new financial good fortune. Frank makes quick work of the case and locates Freddie, but a happy reunion between brothers is not in the cards. When Will’s name is mentioned, Freddie runs off—only to be found dead a short time later. Suspicious, Frank tracks down Will who spins a tale of lust and deceit involving a young society woman, Estelle Longacre, also recently deceased. Frank can’t be sure if Estelle’s risky behavior and the company she kept was to blame, or if her own ruthless family had a hand in her death. Frank will need Sarah’s help to unearth the dark secrets of the wealthy Longacres and to discover if there is a connection between Estelle and Freddie’s death. Together they must navigate a perilous underground web of treachery to find the truth.
