Tag: literarygreenwichvillage
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October 19, 2015 at 03:29PM
Lunchtime #drawing: Poet Marianne Moore lived at 14 St. Luke’s Place in 1918, across from the Hudson Park Library, where she also worked for a few years. In addition to winning a Pulitzer Prize for ‘Collected Poems’ in 1935, she is well known for wearing a cape and tricorn hat around Greenwich Village. #NicksLunchboxService @NYPL…
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October 14, 2015 at 02:55PM
Lunchtime #drawing: Poet Edwin Arlington Robinson lived off and on at 121 Washington Place in Greenwich Village from 1909-12, while writing ‘The Town Down the River’. #NicksLunchboxService #LiteraryGreenwichVillage #architecture #WashingtonPlace #GreenwichVillage #art (at Washington Place) from Nick’s Lunchbox Service on Tumblr http://ift.tt/1MBaMGl via IFTTT
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October 10, 2015 at 02:34PM
Lunchtime #drawing: Mark Twain lived at 14 West 10th Street from 1900-1901, and this Greek Revival building constructed in the 1850s is purported the most haunted buildings in Greenwich Village (including Clemens’ ghost of course in a crisp white suit). #NicksLunchboxService #LiteraryGreenwichVillage #haunted #MarkTwain #GreenwichVillage #14Wast10thStreet #GreekRevival #architecture #art #sketchbook #moleskine #West10thStreet (at Greenwich Village)…
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September 22, 2015 at 03:37PM
Lunchtime #drawing: Lost Generation writer John Dos Passos lived at 11 Bank Street when he wrote ‘Manhattan Transfer’ in 1925. #NicksLunchboxService #LiteraryGreenwichVillage #DosPassos #johndospassos #writer #lostgeneration #WestVillage #11BankStreet #BankStreet #GreenwichVillage #architecture #art #manhattantransfer (at West Village) from Nick’s Lunchbox Service on Tumblr http://ift.tt/1Ppjvu3 via IFTTT
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September 18, 2015 at 04:14PM
Lunchtime #drawing: Author Patricia Highsmith, who wrote ‘The Talented Mr. Ripley’, lived in a sublet at 35 Morton Street in 1940. Most of her 22 novels were set in Greenwich Village. #NicksLunchboxService #patriciahighsmith #MortonStreet #35MortonStreet #LiteraryGreenwichVillage #WestVillage #GreenwichVillage #architecture Daily drawing no. 625 (at West Village) from Nick’s Lunchbox Service on Tumblr http://ift.tt/1iCIwYy via IFTTT
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August 28, 2015 at 01:40PM
Lunchtime #drawing: In 1923 poet Hart Crane lived on the second floor of 45 Grove Street, an 1871 apartment building created from a two-story 1830 mansion. Literary Greenwich Village 5/5. That’s a wrap. Five days doesn’t come close to covering all of the writers’ history in Greenwich Village, I will return to this theme again.…
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August 27, 2015 at 04:11PM
Lunchtime #drawing: Ivy covered 18 West 10th Street was home to writer Emma Lazarus. A line from her poem, “The New Colossus,” is inscribed on the base of the Statue of Liberty, “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” Literary Greenwich Village 4/5 #NicksLunchboxService #EmmaLazarus #GreenwichVillage #LiteraryGreenwichVillage #poet #statueofliberty…
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August 25, 2015 at 01:44PM
Poet Edna St. Vincent Millay lived at 75 ½ Bedford Street (only 9 and ½ feet wide), now partially under scaffolding from the building next door. She was the 1923 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry with “The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver: A Few Figs from Thistles: Eight Sonnets in American Poetry, 1922. A…
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August 24, 2015 at 03:34PM
lunchtime #drawing: for the last forty years of his life, poet e.e. cummings walked through this door to his home at number 4 patchin place, right around the corner from the jefferson market library. kicking off a literary series in greenwich village 1/5. #NicksLunchboxService #eecummings #GreenwichVillage #architecture #Literature #poet #architecture #LiteraryGreenwichVillage #lowercase (at Greenwich Village)…