Welcome to the eleventh year of Bruce’s Garden Summer Readings!
All Readings are on Wednesdays and start at 7 P.M. with refreshments starting at 6:30.
MAY 20 ROBERT SNYDER will read from When the City Stopped Stories from New York’s Essential Workers (Cornell University Press, 2025)
A warm welcome back to Rob who read from Crossing Broadway (Cornell University Press, 2014) in 2015. His new book, When the City Stopped, preserves for future generations what it was like to be in New York when it was at the center of the COVID pandemic. The story is told through the words of health care workers, grocery clerks, transit workers, and community activists who recount their experiences in poems, first-person narratives, and interviews.
JUNE 24 WRITING NEW YORK STORIES From the Nineteenth through Twenty-First Centuries
Award-winning Gotham Center Blogger and Online Editor of the Urban History Journal, KATIE UVA https://www.katieuva.com/ will join editor GEOFF WISNER https://www.geoffwisner.com/ to discuss writing about life in the city. Geoff’s book George Templeton Strong: Civil War Diaries, (Library of America, 2026) and Katie’s blog posts should be the sources of a lively discussion.
JULY 22 LESLIE DAY River–A Hudson Memoir (Cornell University Press, 2025)
We are honored to have Leslie Day https://www.leslieday.nyc/ as this year’s Sid Horenstein Memorial Reader. Dr. Day is an accomplished and prolific writer about the natural world, particularly in New York City. She will read from and discuss her latest book, River–A Hudson Memoir, a unique look at life on and of the Hudson River. It is a love letter to New York City, its famous waterway, as well as the environment around us and the people who shape it.
