The Lower East Side Biography Project - Edgar Oliver

Edgar Oliver on New York City: " In 'Fleures Du Mal', Beaudelaire wrote an amazing poetic portrait of Paris and would bemoan how cities change faster than our hearts. And they do. It's the same with New York. But there is much capacity for decay and madness left in this town. Regardless of what is done to clean it up."

Edgar Oliver on the process of writing: " I try to never quite know what it is that I want to say until I'm at least halfway finished saying it, you know. If art is not a process of discovery then it's nothing."
Broadcast on Time Warner Cable NY, USA (Dec. 27, 2000 and Jan. 24, 2001)