Posted by John Joseph on March 14, 2019 · 1 Comment
Lit Nerd Wednesday! “This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.” “You can lead a horticulture but you can’t make her […]
Category: Featured, Global Featured, Midtown, Neighborhoods · Tags: 59 West 44th Street, Algonquin Hotel, Algonquin Roundtable, artnerd, artnerdnewyork, Dorothy Parker, LitNerd, LitNerd Wednesday, Midtown
Posted by John Joseph on November 14, 2018 · 2 Comments
Lit Nerd Wednesday! My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends— It gives a lovely light! First […]
Category: Featured, Global Featured, Greenwich Village, Neighborhoods · Tags: 75 1/2 Bedford Street, artnerd, artnerdnewyork, Chumley's, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Greenwich Village, LitNerd, LitNerd Wednesday, Narrowest House in Greenwich Village
Posted by John Joseph on September 26, 2018 · Leave a Comment
Lit Nerd Wednesday! It’s a drag to write about places completely vanished or just a shell of their former glory so it feels good to talk about something still very […]
Category: Featured, Global Featured, Neighborhoods, Upper East Side · Tags: 1395 Lexington Avenue, 92nd Street Y, artnerd, artnerdnewyork, Langston Hughes, LitNerd, LitNerd Wednesday, Unterberg Poetry Center, W.H. Auden, William Carlos Williams
Posted by John Joseph on August 29, 2018 · 1 Comment
Lit Nerd Wednesday! The cliché images of poetry and jazz are well engrained in the pop culture psyche of the 1950s and the Beat Generation. The seeds of that image were […]
Category: Featured, Global Featured, Greenwich Village, Neighborhoods · Tags: artnerd, artnerdnewyork, Circle in the Square Theatre, David Amram, Greenwich Village, Jack Kerouac, Jose Quintero, LitNerd, LitNerd Wednesday, Philip Lamantia, Theodore Mann
Posted by John Joseph on July 25, 2018 · Leave a Comment
Lit Nerd Wednesday! I have mixed feelings about Midtown — like the rest of the city, I find some of the modern architecture kind of awful but I really like the […]
Category: Featured, Global Featured, Midtown, Neighborhoods · Tags: 60 East 54th Street, artnerd, artnerdnewyork, Donna Alberico, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Hotel Elysee, LitNerd, LitNerd Wednesday, Midtown, Tennessee Williams, The Monkey Bar
Posted by John Joseph on June 13, 2018 · 2 Comments
Lit Nerd Wednesday! Tree-lined streets are a dime a dozen in the Village but very few have the reputation of the timeless Patchin Place. This small alley populated with three […]
Category: Featured, Global Featured, Greenwich Village, Neighborhoods · Tags: artnerd, artnerdnewyork, Djuna Barnes, e.e. cummings, Greenwich Village, John Reed, LitNerd, LitNerd Wednesday, Louise Bryant, Patchin Place
Posted by John Joseph on February 7, 2018 · 2 Comments
Lit Nerd Wednesday! Where do I start when it comes to William S. Burroughs? From the moment he stepped foot in New York City it was high drama, be it […]
Posted by John Joseph on January 17, 2018 · Leave a Comment
Lit Nerd Wednesday! On a tree-lined street in Brooklyn Heights a faded plaque rests on one of the many brownstones that dot the area — fitting as the reputation of […]
Category: Brooklyn, Featured, Global Featured, Neighborhoods · Tags: 5 Montague Terrace, artnerd, artnerdnewyork, brooklyn, Brooklyn Heights, Downtown Brooklyn, LitNerd, LitNerd Wednesday, Scribners, Thomas Wolfe
Posted by John Joseph on January 10, 2018 · 2 Comments
Lit Nerd Wednesday! It’s strange to think of West Eighth Street as anything but a few blocks of tacky shoe stores but in the 1950s and 60s it was […]
Category: Featured, Global Featured, Greenwich Village, Neighborhoods · Tags: 32 West 8th Street, Allen Ginsberg, artnerd, artnerdnewyork, Bob Dylan, e.e. cummings, Eighth Street Bookshop, Eli Wilentz, Greenwich Village, Jack Kerouac, LitNerd, LitNerd Wednesday, Marianne Moore, Stumptown Coffee, Ted Wilentz, West 8th Street
Posted by John Joseph on December 13, 2017 · 3 Comments
Lit Nerd Wednesday! Even if you think you know a ton about the lost literary haunts of NYC, you come across some surprises like Cafe Le Metro. Situated in what […]
Category: East Village, Featured, Global Featured, Neighborhoods · Tags: 149 Second Avenue, Allen Ginsberg, Anne Waldman, artnerd, artnerdnewyork, Cafe Le Metro, Diane DiPrima, East Village, Ed Sanders, Fred W. McDarrah, Gregory Corso, LitNerd, LitNerd Wednesday, New York School, Ted Berrigan
