Tag Archives: Edward Adler

dark street notes

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

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sages of the stoop and curb

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

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taxi driver: fare game

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

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