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September 5, 2010
Edward Dalhberg’s Brooklyn, Part I
Who Walk In Brooklyn
This blog entry is primarily a tribute to the American author, Edward Dahlberg. The blog's author points to under-appreciated work by Norman Oder and Amy Lavine as a comparison to the similarly under-appreciated Dahlberg.
Edward Dalhberg spent some of the last years his singularly fraught and brilliant life teaching at the University of Missouri at Kansas City. Some readers otherwise unfamiliar with Dahlberg might know this from Jonathan Lethem’s essay “The Disappointment Artist”; while I value more of Dahlberg more highly than Jonathan, we agree on the great merits of Because I Was Flesh (1963). In 1997, while in Lawrence, Kansas, I purchased a few late-period Dahlberg books which had been deaccessed from UM/KC; an odd but cool coincidence. Were they mad or something, I wondered, or did people not care? They should! Likewise the underheralded work of Norman Oder of the Atlantic Yards Report which— with that of article co-author Amy Lavine— has recently turned up in The Urban Lawyer, a journal edited by students and faculty of the University of Missouri at Kansas City School of Law. Is anyone going to get mad now? They should, like Mother Jones, be furious!
Posted by steve at September 5, 2010 11:00 AM