Bill's New Book
A DIRTY YEAR
Sex, Suffrage, & Scandal
in Gilded Age New York
A nonfiction narrative of 1872 New York, a city convulsing with social upheaval and sexual revolution and beset with all the excitement and challenges a moment of transformation brings.
Forthcoming from
Chicago Review Press,
April 2020
Stories & Stuff
Old News & Views
LAND DREADNOUGHT "RECRUIT" "LAUNCHED" IN UNION SQUARE
- New York Daily Tribune, May 31, 1917
Built in 1917, this wooden battleship in Union Square served as a recruiting station in WWI.
A RUSSIAN'S VIEW OF NY
"More than any other city in the world, it is the fullest expression of our modern age … a city of prose and fantasy, of capitalist automatism, its streets a triumph of cubism, its moral philosophy that of the dollar."
- Leon Trotsky, 1916
PROFESSOR CLEARS EVE OF ADAM'S DOWNFALL
- New York Times, Jan. 1, 1920
Evidence showing that a woman did not cause the downfall of the human race was produced by Dr. Stephepn Langdon. His translation of Babylonian tablets from the ruins of Nippur indicates Noah ate the apple, perhaps fed by a feminine deity who saved him from the deluge.