Will We Ever Swim in the East River?

A new essay for Vital City

Jun 5 • 

Nicky von Hartz Shapiro

9

May 2025

What In the World Was 2020?

Five years later, a redux

May 27 • 

Nicky von Hartz Shapiro

4

3

April 2025

Pupusa

A couple little stories, plus a NYC reading this week

Apr 14 • 

Nicky von Hartz Shapiro

5

March 2025

No Reply

My first short story is live

Mar 31 • 

Nicky von Hartz Shapiro

10

1

February 2025

The NFL Won the Culture War

A decade ago, football was dying. What happened?

Feb 3 • 

Nicky von Hartz Shapiro

8

4

January 2025

The Duck and the Goose

A lifetime of dangling from a very high wire

Jan 28 • 

Nicky von Hartz Shapiro

5

Whose New York?

Refreshing the city's tired mythology

Jan 22 • 

Nicky von Hartz Shapiro

5

Get It?

The hypermodern lessons of "Don Quixote"

Jan 13 • 

Nicky von Hartz Shapiro

6

1

Before the Flood

The meaning of the Los Angeles fires

Jan 9 • 

Nicky von Hartz Shapiro

9

December 2024

radiator

sunday poetry II

Dec 29, 2024 • 

Nicky von Hartz Shapiro

4

"The Solution is to Change Your Brain"

A conversation with a smartphone addict-turned screen time professional

Dec 20, 2024 • 

Nicky von Hartz Shapiro

7

1

sockets hollow

sunday poetry

Dec 15, 2024 • 

Nicky von Hartz Shapiro

5