BWaterman
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | literary historian, university professor |
| Location | NYC |
| Introduction | I've been faculty-in-residence at Broome St. since January 2007; prior to that I was in residence at Water St. (2004-06). My family and I have been at NYU and in NYC since 2001. I spent the first 17 years of my life in smalltown Arizona. I've spent the second half of my life on the east coast. I teach early American literature and NYC lit/cultures in the English department. |
| Interests | all sorts of recorded noise (including most genres of music), yoga, vegetarian cooking (though I eat meat too), post-war american art, downtown history, running, new jersey geography trivia, biking w/ my daughters |
| Favorite movies | wes anderson's, todd haynes's, the coen brothers' |
| Favorite music | dylan (esp. 1969-76), freeform radio on wfmu.org, grizzly bear, shostakovich, downtown scene 75-80, bowie, connie converse, the clean, johnny cash, early pavement, late beatles, final fantasy, sibelius, broken social scene, the velvets, destroyer, (smog) (bill callahan), neil young, osvaldo golijov, 70s outlaw country (esp. willie and waylon), lambchop, almost anything composed or produced by jack nitzsche or jim o'rourke or brian eno, postpunk/new wave, samamidon, sunset rubdown, bonnie "prince" billy |
| Favorite books | moby-dick (melville), wieland (charles brockden brown), the kingdom of matthias (paul johnson and sean wilentz), up in the old hotel (joseph mitchell), tristram shandy (laurence sterne), the master and margarita (mikhail bulgakov) |