News

Atlantic studies

(posted Saturday, January 7, 2012 at 6:02 am)

As part of NYU’s Faculty Resource Network I’m teaching a faculty seminar, “Literatures of the Atlantic,” 9-13 January at the University of the Sacred Heart and the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras in San Juan. More here.


WNYU New Afternoon Show

(posted Thursday, September 29, 2011 at 9:31 pm)

I spent a couple hours on WNYU talking to Jenn Pelly, one of my former students, & playing music that informed Television’s Marquee Moon. Stream the show here. (Here are some earlier sets on WNYC and WFMU.)


Marquee Moon

(posted Thursday, June 9, 2011 at 6:57 pm)

is in stores now. Support your local indies! Buy it from a real person. And don’t miss Cyrus Patell’s Some Girls: we really did conceive of them as companion volumes.


Save some dates

(posted Thursday, May 26, 2011 at 10:50 pm)

Cyrus Patell and I will be reading from our new 33 1/3 vols in Manhattan at McNally Jackson on June 20, and in BK at Word Brooklyn on June 28. Official party details still TK.


I ain’t waiting

(posted Thursday, May 26, 2011 at 10:45 pm)

My book on Marquee Moon is officially off the presses, but won’t be in warehouses & stores until mid-June. More TK on release party, readings, etc. Still … celebrating!


I recall, lightning struck itself

(posted Friday, February 25, 2011 at 10:35 pm)

My 33 1/3 volume on Television’s Marquee Moon is in production, due out in June. NYU Local ran a brief piece.


Empire Tweets Back

(posted Friday, February 18, 2011 at 12:05 am)

Friday, Feb. 18, I’ll join a handful of others invited by WNYC to tweet the full 8 hours of Andy Warhol’s 1964 film Empire, screening at MoMA. I’m on from 12:30 to 1:30. Tune in!


If I ever catch that ventriloquist …

(posted Thursday, December 23, 2010 at 11:44 am)

My Norton Critical Edition of Charles Brockden Brown’s 1798 gothic thriller Wieland is now available. Ask your local bookseller to stock it!


American Studies Association

(posted Wednesday, November 3, 2010 at 6:19 pm)

Nov 18-21 I’ll be in San Antonio for the annual ASA meeting; I’ll be part of a colloquy on three recent books abt friendship and affiliation in early America, incl my Republic of Intellect.


Weird America, 1790-1830

(posted Friday, October 15, 2010 at 1:21 pm)

I’ll be at the Huntington Library in San Marino, CA, next week (Oct 21-23) for the seventh biennial conference of the Charles Brockden Brown Society. Program here.