Max Page's latest book, The City’s End, examines the destruction fantasies created by American writers and imagemakers at various stages of New York’s development. Seen in every medium from newspapers and films to novels, paintings, and computer software, such images, though disturbing, have been continuously popular. Page demonstrates with vivid examples and illustrations how each era’s destruction genre has reflected the city’s economic, political, racial, or physical tensions, and he also shows how the images have become forces in their own right, shaping Americans’ perceptions of New York and of cities in general.
admin September 16th, 2008
I will be speaking about The City’s End at the following places in the coming months:
October 7, 7 pm Food For Thought Books in Amherst, MA
October 16, 6:30 pm Harvard University, Center for the Environment
November 13, in the evening Case Western University, Cleveland
November 24, 6:30 pm Gotham Center, New York
April 13, 2009 University of Pennsylvania