In finishing up this project, I find myself wanting to stay with this research as exploring both the past and present independent bookstores has been
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A Kink in the Process
(Yes, I know I probably should not be posting my last two process blogs on the final day, but it’s better than not getting to
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Last night, I attended this event at CUNY Graduate Center in which literary agent Eric Simonoff moderated a panel featuring authors Jonathan Ames and Simon
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A Literary Map of Manhattan
A Literary Map of Manhattan is a thematic map created in 2005 for the The New York Times Book Review that plots “where imaginary New
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Sampling Strategies and Data Model
A corner of Book Row (Fourth Ave. at Astor Place), c. 1935. From the NYPL Digital Gallery, Image ID: 708165F. One of the things I’ve
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Independent Bookstores in NYC: Past & Present
Source: East Carolina University. Joyner Library Digital Collections. Stuart Wright Collection – Randall Jarrell Papers # 1169-005.7.f The idea for my topic was inspired by
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Scientific American’s Cities Issue
This is more relevant to the “urban” part of the class than the “media archaeology” part, but Scientific American magazine’s September issue is all about
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