The Literary Life Where You Find

An article in the TU in association with tomorrow's event:

THE LITERARY LIFE WHERE YOU FIND IT: an evening with WILLIAM KENNEDY and ELISA ALBERT
Thursday, November 7th, at 6 pm, at the Stair Gallery, 549 Warren Street, Hudson. For more information, contact the Hudson Library at 518.828.1792.

The TU's Amy Griffin writes:

In 2010, Patti Smith gave some advice to young artists: "New York has closed itself off to the young and the struggling. But there are other cities. Detroit. Poughkeepsie. New York has been taken away from you. So my advice is: Find a new city."

These sentiments were echoed more recently when David Byrne, former frontman of Talking Heads, wrote for Creative Time Reports that New York City is becoming increasingly inhospitable to creativity and that "the cultural part of the city — the mind — has been usurped by the top 1 percent."