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September 16th, 2022
My latest book Writing the City: A Collection of Essays on New York, was launched on June 3, 2022 at the New-York Historical Society and further publicized in the following talk I gave on September 8 at the New York Society Library. My remarks about the book and its publisher, the Library of American Landscape History, can be read here or heard in a live video recording. READ MORE >
September 9th, 2022
To have lived through a catastrophic event of dire danger inevitably produces personal recollections of a time and place in history in which one was either a firsthand or secondhand spectator, if not a victim, of an immediate transformative disaster, the anniversary dates of which prompt recollection. In the case of the destruction of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, New York City itself remains emblematic of a nation imperiled by an ideology given expression through terrorism. Having watched at a lofty distance and then taken stock among the scattered coteries of shocked citizens who, like me, were finding solace in the balm of nature within its green heart, I was prompted this year to write a narrative of what I experienced on that terrible day. READ MORE >
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