The Experience of Place (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Tony Hiss
- First Published: 1990
- Type of Work: Essays
- Genres: Nonfiction, Essays, History, Biography
- Subjects: Psychology or psychologists, Rural or country life, Farms, farmers, or farming, City life, Theater, Humanism, Filmmaking or filmmakers, Environment or environmental health, Pornography, Architecture or architects, Geography, Landscape architecture
Times Square, the focus of a century of theatrical excitement, looms in the imaginarion of most Americans as a locus of tawdriness and danger, a symbolic center of much that is threatening or depressing in contemporary urban culture. Yet for Tony Hiss, staff writer for The New Yorker and the author of The Experience of Place, Times Square is a welcoming physical space that is still brimming with life. Behind the down-at-heels pornographic theaters and the drug pushers, Hiss sees a complex of variegated and interesting buildings, lit in the daytime by a flood of sunshine...
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