My parents grew up during the Great Depression when even in New York, rents were cheap — though no one could afford anything. My mother was raised in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, on the Southside in cramped apartments –railroad flats mostly, four people in less than 400 square feet. They’d move whenever her mother found a better [...]
Here’s a podcast of a story I told on WBAI on the Next Hour in January 2009. I had developed the story in a workshop I took through Narativ and was invited to tell it as part of their “storytelling circle.” The story is true and follows the rules of Narativ’s techniques. So have a [...]
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