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CRITICAL ESSAYS
LITERARY MONTAUK:
AND THEN WE CAME TO THE END
Literary Hub, August 31, 2015
The history of the East End of Long Island as told through its literature, from Walt Whitman to Jaws.
TALES OF TWO CITIES:
THE SAFDIE BROTHERS
AND HEAVEN KNOWS WHAT
The L Magazine, May 26, 2015
Talking with two filmmakers who make movies about New York like no one else, finding little bits of the old city hidden in plain sight on the streets of the new one.
CHILDHOOD'S END:
DEATH AND GROWING UP IN THE BOOKS OF RAY BRADBURY
Electric Literature, February 9, 2015
Why so many kids die in the work of this iconic sci-fi writer.
GILBERT SORRENTINO:
THE LOST LAUREATE OF BROOKLYN
Electric Literature, August 11, 2014
The most Bay Ridge novelist you never heard of.
ON DIME NOVELS, SENSATION STORIES, AND THE FIRST APPEARANCE OF OLD SLEUTH
Crime Reads, December 14, 2021
An introduction to Harlan Halsey's 1870s dime novel Old Sleuth, the Detective; Or, the Bay Ridge Mystery.
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