3 May 2013 | Hidden City Daily
In Gregory Heller’s just released book, the legendary city planner is a man of contradictions. My review of Ed Bacon: Planning, Politics, and the Building of Modern Philadelphia, the first comprehensive Bacon bio.
21 October 2012
When we came home from San Francisco, I started reading My Struggle, whose narrator—certainly the author himself—was a young novelist, desperate for more time to work on his oeuvre.
4 April 2012 | Hidden City Daily
It’s a story of global interconnections, 18th century style.
23 May 2011
This Thursday, May 26, I’ll be at Drexel University’s literary fest, “Week of Writing,” participating in a panel discussion, “Making History,” with Paula Cohen, Jay Kirk, and Buzz Bissinger.
25 April 2011
The long-brewing effort to bring the history of Philadelphia to film gets its official start Tuesday night at 7:30 on 6ABC.