New York City event space P&T Knitwear welcomes David Goodwin for a live, in-person discussion of his new book Midnight Rambles—a micro-biography of H.P. Lovecraft and his love–hate relationship with New York City—along with an audience Q&A and book signing.
Midnight Rambles presents a chronological micro-biography of Lovecraft’s New York years, emphasizing Lovecraft’s exploration of the city environment, the greater metropolitan region, and other locales and how they molded him as a writer and as an individual. Drawing from primary sources (letters, memoirs, and published personal reflections) and secondary sources (biographies and scholarship), Midnight Rambles develops a portrait of a talented and troubled author and offers insights into his unsettling beliefs on race, ethnicity, and immigration.
David will be joined in conversation by Claire Donner, the Online Branch Director of the Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies. After the talk, David will sign copies of his book.
David J. Goodwin is the Assistant Director of the Center on Religion and Culture at Fordham University and was a Frederick Lewis Allen Room scholar at the New York Public Library from 2020 to 2023. He is a past commissioner and chairperson of the Jersey City Historic Preservation Commission and a former Jersey City Landmarks Conservancy board member. His first book, Left Bank of the Hudson: Jersey City and the Artists of 111 1st Street, received the J. Owen Grundy History Award in 2018.
