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[...] residency? It felt really weird! And I was asked to do a lot of interviews—The Wire, The New Yorker, WNYC. There was one interview that was really uncomfortable, for the Poynter Institute. The [...]

[...] . If your first encounter with the concept of triggers was in an article in Salon or The New Yorker, you probably haven’t been diagnosed as being susceptible to what psychologists, [...]

[...] says “Pooh-pooh” to the tiger in the zoo lived in Paris, Madeline is really a New Yorker. The artist once said, “I am part of New York, as so many foreigners are, and I love [...]

[...] be famous for Clueless) for the role of Angela. Casting director Linda Lowy told The New Yorker that “no one could really speak” after watching Danes’s audition, but comedian [...]

[...] , the fire commissioner and the medical examiner. I visited the Fresh Kills Landfill in Staten Island. I returned to Ground Zero, where rescue workers complained that truckloads of “debris” were [...]

[...] parade of families in Park Slope became too much to bear, I moved Aidan to a carriage house on Staten Island I know his father would have loved for its history and wide, wooden beams. I wanted a fresh [...]

[...] to Brown, there was Eric Garner, a 43-year-old father of six choked to death by police on Staten Island for selling loose cigarettes. Then there was John Crawford III, shot to death by cops in an [...]

[...] and Sons were once Broadway’s bread and butter. So why can’t a show written by a Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright (it’s McNally’s 16th Broadway production) and starring [...]

[...] triumphs in theater history. It ran for 12 years, won a raft of awards (including the Pulitzer Prize and four Tonys) and featured some of the biggest names in show business, including Taye Diggs, [...]

[...] one side are those who think the nearly 800-page novel is way too long and undeserving of the Pulitzer Prize, let alone multimillion-dollar earnings. Then there are those of us who put the work in [...]