Tag Archives: Edward Adler

dark street notes

Posted on April 4, 2012 by Dave

In Edward Adler’s Notes From a Dark Street the materials of common contemporary existence on the Lower East Side – circa late 1950′s- have been ordered and transmuted into a terrible cosmography far transcending its naturalistic events. The novel’s aesthetic … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Balzac, Ed De Blasio, Edward Adler, Edward Adler writer, Flaubert, Helen Levitt photography, Henry Roth author, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Nathaniel West, Robert Frost, Stanley kauffman, T.S. Eliot | Leave a comment

sages of the stoop and curb

Posted on April 3, 2012 by Dave

In New York, people of all sorts freely mix with each other; but only slightly do they thaw and melt into a common pool of humanity. Edward Adler: Notes From a Dark Street. 1962. ….Martyrdom and suffering recounted in some … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word | Tagged Adad Hannah, Allen Ginsberg, Dante Inferno, Edward Adler, Edward Adler writer, gericault raft of the medusa, Henry Fielding, James Joyce, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Saul Bellow, Theodore Gericault, William Dafoe | Leave a comment

taxi driver: fare game

Posted on April 3, 2012 by Dave

The antithesis between Edward Adler and his art could not have been more extreme. He lived on 11th Street near Avenue D on New York’s East Side, in a brick building well over a hundred years old; not a historical … Continue reading →