S5.34 Bartleby, the Sailor
Bartleby, the Sailor at Substack
(photo of his dog, since Jim's cover photo is the main image for the substack.)David Partikian's substack: Retired Merchant Marine 2nd Mate and former deckhand who has very strong opinions on various subjects, particularly literature.
The Life and Works of Herman Melville
Link-heavy site dedicated to disseminating information about Herman Melville online.
May be somewhat out of date, but hey it's not wikipedia.
The Shadow Book Fair
Officially, the Manhattan Rare Book & Fine Press Fair.
Next scheduled for May 2, 2026, at the Church of St. Vincent Ferrer.
The one-day fair will coincide with the NY Antiquarian Book Fair at the Park Avenue Armory, right next door.
Gary Snyder
Beat Generation poet (and Merchant Marine) who inspired the character of Japhy Ryder in Kerouac's The Dharma Bums.While he was concerned about the environment, he is not credited with the creation of Earth Day.
Stuyvesant Town–Peter Cooper Village
StuyTown is a large post-WW II private residential development on the east side of Manhattan. The developments contain 11,250 apartments.
The non-wikipedia links were mostly landlords.
Jane Jacobs & unintended gentrification
Her book The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961) argued that "urban renewal" and "slum clearance" did not respect the needs of city-dwellers.
The factors that she argued would maintain economic and cultural diversity have led instead to gentrification and some of the most expensive real estate in the world. The extent to which her ideas facilitated this phenomenon was at the time unimaginable.
Her ideas may best apply only to cities with similar issues to those of New York.
“The House of Mirth” by Edith Wharton
Published in 1905, but set in New York City during the Gilded Age (1870s-1890s). it shocked society by detailing how women learn to compete for what little privileges they have in such a society.