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In My Backyard

Monday, April 11, 2005

D. J. Waldie, writer, Public Information Officer of the city of Lakewood since 1978 and author of the soon-to-be reissued, Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir (W.W.Norton, April 18, 2005)
- on his memoir of his working class suburb
» More on D.J. Waldie
and
Rosalyn Baxandall Distinguished Teaching Professor and Chair of American Studies at the State University of New York College at Old Westbury and co-author with Elizabeth Ewen, Picture Windows: How the Suburbs Happened (Basic Books, 2001)
- on Long Island suburban development
and
Robert Beuka, Assistant professor of English at Bronx Community College, City University of New York and author, SuburbiaNation : Reading Suburban Landscape in Twentieth-Century American Fiction and Film (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004)
» More on SuburbiaNation
and
Tom Suozzi Nassau County Executive (D)
- on his vision for a "new suburbia"
» Tom Suozzi


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