Opium Wars, Chinatown, and NYC Punk with Alvin Eng
NYPL Stephen A. Schwarzman Building 476 Fifth Avenue, New York, NYNYPL Long-Term Fellow Alvin Eng presents a work-in-progress look at his forthcoming work of history and memoir, Urban Oracle Bones, which explores the cultural dynamic between opium and the “heroin chic” punk scene of 1970s NYC. Drawing on resources from the Library’s Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, as […]
