“Have you ever thought about writing a book?” This question was often posed to me during my time writing long-form stories for the Stamford Advocate and the Augusta Chronicle. In 2015, I finally did, in the form of Graffiti Murals: Exploring the Impacts of Street Art.
The work started in 2012 as a paper I wrote for the first class I took as part of an urban studies master’s degree, blossomed into a thesis, and then hit the stands as a 144-page book built upon a scaffold of six case studies in New York City and the surrounding areas. If you dig graffiti, symbolic interactions, and cultural marxism, have I got a read for you.
““Undoubtedly, every reader will come away knowing something new from “Graffiti Murals” and with a greater appreciation for many of the complexities around them in the US.””
Publicity for Graffiti Murals
In December 2015, WPIX invited me to their live morning broadcast to talk about the book.
In May 2018, my Fordham colleagues invited me to talk about how I used my time working on an urban studies master’s degree to write the book.
In October 2018, my fellow urban studies alumnus David Goodwin and I discussed urbanism, gentrification, and art at the Fordham Law Library’s “Behind the Book” series.