Hungry Heart
This winter brings Broadway and Hollywood versions of strong 1920s women up against hard choices in a hard world: Machinal on Broadway and The Immigrant,… Read More »Hungry Heart
This winter brings Broadway and Hollywood versions of strong 1920s women up against hard choices in a hard world: Machinal on Broadway and The Immigrant,… Read More »Hungry Heart
Anzia Yezierska paved the way for great storytellers like Grace Paley, who read Yezierska’s stories and novels of Jewish immigrant life as a young woman.… Read More »Powerful Woman from East Side: Anzia Yezierska
The WPA guides track fine-grained details of 1930s America, from the call signals of long lost radio stations to stories of tenement families. But what… Read More »WPA Guides and Cities of the Imagination – Part 1
Seventy years ago this week, the WPA Guide to New York City came out amid a campaign blitz of jingles and quiz games. In 1939,… Read More »Seeing the Shadow City: Anniversary for the WPA Guide to New York City