As contingent workers in the CUNY system, many members of the Graduate Center community have become inured to the constant threat of losing their teaching positions at short notice. Following Governor Patterson’s budget cuts last summer, many long-serving adjuncts found themselves out...
The year was 1997 when Molly Klopot first entered the building at 339 Lafayette in Manhattan, and like many people, she was initially struck by the amount of activity that went on in there. "When I first came into the room, I met a very stately and tall old woman who represented our...
Subduing Demons in America: Selected Poems 1962-2007 by John Giorno. Edited by Marcus Boon. Soft Skull Press, 2007. 387 Pages. I. John Giorno is the most important poet you’ve never heard of. Elaine Showalter calls him the father of performance poetry, though Cristin O’Keefe...
Dynamite: The Story of Class Violence in America by Louis Adamic. AK Press Edition (2008) The contemporary US labor movement does not have a reputation for militancy. By almost any standard, American unions stack up poorly compared to their European, Asian, African and Latin American...
The Generational: Younger Than Jesus. At the New Museum, on view till June 14, 2009 Let’s get right to the point: if this is the best the so-called Millenials have to offer (myself being one of them) then the art world as we know might as well pack up and leave. It’s been a good run....
