Schwartz is a poet, a peripatetic cultural historian, and, most recently, the author of an enthusiastic, onomatopoeia-rich, nine-hundred-page tome called “Making Noise: From Babel to Big Bang and Beyond.” (“When people pull it out, I still can’t believe it’s nine hundred pages,” he said, “and that’s without the bibliography.” Three hundred and forty-nine additional pages of endnotes list his exhaustive scholarship, and another fifty-one-page bibliography examines noisiness in children’s books.) He lives in Encinitas, California, and arrived in Manhattan for the finale of the Guggenheim’s “Stillspotting NYC,” a two-year, multidisciplinary investigation into calmness and the “man-made environment.”
As he walked up Riverside, Schwartz laid out a brief history of the early days of anti-noise activism.
A Manhattan Landmark in the History of the Anti-Noise Movement : The New Yorker
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