Night 6
Cities and strangers
Readings
- poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Read at Poetry Foundation →
- essay Here Is New York
- story The Lady with the Dog Read at Project Gutenberg →
Cities are full of strangers, and tonight's writers are interested in what happens when you remain one. Eliot's Prufrock walks through streets he cannot bring himself to participate in. White writes a love letter to New York that doubles as a warning. Chekhov follows two people into an affair that turns out to be about something neither of them expected. Watch for the moment in each piece where distance collapses -- or doesn't.
Journal entry coming soon.