Neil Cohen, filmmaker, playwright, and City University of New York graduate has his first children's book coming out on June 11th, American Gargoyles in….Save the Wentworth!, a children’s picture book (that is sure to charm adults too, particularly preservationists and fans of all things in New York City) telling “the story of one building and its gargoyles.”
Big Data
A Review Of Cathy O’Neil’s “Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy”
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But in "Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy," Cathy O'Neil presents a concise case about the perils of Big Data through the examples she offers over decades of technological development...
Poetry
A Winter Morning in the City
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Hot Coffee—in one hand—my face in the other; shit it’s another Monday (Motherfucker!). Warm Winter-day: too hot for a jacket, too cold for my hoodie. Mild Annoyance. Cool-head, cool-head, time to go to work! Cold Commuters, (fuck you), grunting and screaming, (I got shit to do too)!
Poetry
Liberty Ashes (Keep Rising)
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I was raised on the edge
of the city others said
was too far out to venture
Fiction
The Lottery Ticket
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Olivia was tired.
It had been a long afternoon, busy with a lot of difficult customers. She had just finished refilling the salt and pepper shakers, replaced the setups that needed replacing and had just finished changing the specials in all the menus; she was wiping down the counter and glancing at the clock when he walked in.
Fiction
Death in the School-Room (a Fact)
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“No impudence!” exclaim’d the teacher, passionately, as he grasp’d a long and heavy ratan: “give me none of your sharp speeches, or I’ll thrash you till you beg like a dog.”
From the Archives
The Password To Thought—To Culture
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This story appeared in 120 Million, a 1927 collection of the stories, poems and chants of Michael Gold, the editor of the New Masses.
Arts & Culture
Inspiration Reading Gives Me
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Reading inspires me. It inspires me because when I read,
I get ideas from the story's characters. Stories teach me life lessons
And gives advice I can use in every way of life. I become more open minded of the world around me and the people in it. Stories help me get through my day and keeps me standing tall.
Arts & Culture
A Simple Saxophone
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We sit down together
And I take a deep breath
As I place my fingers on C.
Literature
Clear Continuity: When a Critic becomes an Author
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Brad Stevens is a hell of a film critic. I should know, as I devoured two of his books on unfairly marginalized filmmakers, Monte Hellman and Abel Ferrara, in one sitting each.
Fiction
A Dystopian Universe: An analysis of “The Hunt” by Brad Stevens
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ver wanted the latest shoes, shirts, or jackets; what if you couldn’t wear any materials besides a uniform or else be punished? Those are the types of conditions that Mara lived through in a universe created by Brad Stevens when he wrote his book The Hunt. The Hunt is an entertaining, clear, and exciting story; the book creates a convincing “dystopian” universe which inflicts a lot of pain and suffering to everyone who lives in it.