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...knows? But now, in the title novella, we see where the question leads. The narrator, a blocked writer, has moved from his wife and his comfortable home in Connecticut to a Greenwich Village pad. He can't write in the burbs, can't stand the entanglement. Can he write in the Village? Well, he's trying, but his roiling thoughts won't order themselves tamely and obediently into fiction. There he sits at his desk, staring idly out of the window, listening to his middle-aged frame creak, finding a suspicious bump on his scrotum, brooding...
...state that has gained the most is New York. New York City has long been a film center in its own right, and now has a one-third share of U.S. movie production. In 1983, 66 movies were shot there, including The Pope of Greenwich Village, Ghostbusters and Francis Coppola's The Cotton Club. In the first half of this year...
...Margin of Hope, Howe describes Abel as "a sort of freelance guerrilla ready to take on all comers." The Intellectual Follies is not as combative as this statement leads one to expect. The narrative adheres loosely to a chronology. Abel, son of a Niagara Falls rabbi, goes to Greenwich Village in 1929 to begin his literary venture. The Depression finds him there, receiving a weekly check from a federally sponsored writers' program. Many of the artists and litterateurs of the period had little affection for the hand that fed them; Abel notes with a twinkle that he stayed home...
...Atlantic Cable Company arranged for the transmission of 10 free telegrams between Washington D.C. and Greenwich, England for astronomical reports, but attained only partial success...
Charles Ludlam is at it again. His Ridiculous Theatrical Company, the Greenwich Village troupe that on a shoestring has rejuvenated the manly art of comic burlesque, now turns for its inspiration to the penny dreadful, a sensational form of fiction that nourished in Victorian Britain...