Matthew Gasda

3 weeks ago | wisdomofcrowds.live | Percy Bysshe Shelley |Samuel Kimbriel |Matthew Gasda |Ted Gioia

This week, we tried an experiment: a Substack live event! wrote a popular article about Romanticism, his contribution to an ongoing debate. had a few disagreements with Gasda’s piece. In the spirit of Wisdom of Crowds, we hosted our first-ever live-streamed Substack debate. It went pretty well! We hope to host more. By popular demand, here is a video recording of that debate.

1 month ago | wisdomofcrowds.live | Matthew Gasda |Ross Barkan |Ted Gioia

Already before the Casper David Friedrich exhibition at the Met, many people have been predicting a revival of Romanticism in our time. The novelist and culture critic have both written memorably about it. Recently, we published an edition of CrowdSource with roundup of pro- and anti-Romanticism takes. Today, questions all this Romanticism-talk, asking whether we really would want to live like a Romantic artist.

Jan 24, 2025 | thespectator.com | Matthew Gasda |Matthew Lynn |Joel Kotkin |Zaid Jilani

I wrote my play Doomers partly because, the night Sam Altman was fired, I was performing in a play called Zoomers. Someone — I forget who — suggested the idea of Doomers as a joke, and I thought it was a good one. My method for some, if not all, of my plays over the past few years has been to take some kind of mimetic material — downtown, Gen Z, polyamory — and to find what is surprising or human inside the meme.

Jan 10, 2025 | firstthings.com | Matthew Gasda

Talkin' Greenwich Village:The Heady Rise and Slow Fall of America's Bohemian Music Capitalby david brownehachette, 352 pages, $32.50 I moved to New York in 2011 and started hanging out in the Village, not realizing that it was, at that point, largely a fake neighborhood—NYU kids and the wealthy. Enacting the cliché in full, I would write in my journal in Washington Square and do looping walks around downtown, looking for bookstores and coffee shops, anywhere I could loiter.

Jan 7, 2025 | unherd.com | Matthew Gasda

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