Readings

As course readings are available electronically, you will find them here.

Egan, Jennifer. “Reading Lucy.” Brooklyn Was Mine. Eds Chris Knutsen and Valerie Steiker. New York: Riverhead Books, 2008. 21-32.

Fessenden, Ford, et. al. The Bloomberg Years: Reshaping New York.” The New York Times, 2013. Web.

George, Nelson. “Fort Greene Dreams.” City Kid: A Writer’s Memoir of Ghetto Life and Post-Soul Success. New York: Viking, 2009. 176-187. E-book.

Joseph, Yonette. “The Tunnel Rats of Atlantic Avenue.” New York Times, February 13, 2009. Web.

Lopate, Philip. “The Brooklyn Bridge.” Waterfront: A Walk Around Manhattan. New York: Anchor Books, 2005. 264-272.

McGrath, Charles. “A Literary Visitor Strolls in from the Airport.” New York Times, December 6, 2006. Web.

McGrath, Ben. “Who Knows Brooklyn?” The New Yorker, September 19, 2009. Web.

O’Brien, Tim. “How to Tell a True War Story.” The Things They Carried. 1990. Web.

Merchant, Brian. “The Happiest and Saddest Places in New York City, According to Twitter.” Motherboard, August 20, 2013. Web.

Trachtenberg, Alan. “Prologue.” Brooklyn Bridge: Fact and Symbol. 2nd ed. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1965, 1979. 3-4.

Whitehead, Colson. “City Limits.” The Colossus of New York: A City in Thirteen Parts. New York: Random House, 2004. 1-12. Web.

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