Director's Chair: Ari Laura Kreith on "I Like to Be Here: Jackson Heights Revisited, or, This is a Mango"
Everyone knows the story of the three blind men and the elephant. As ablest as it may be (which it is), the metaphor points to one invaluable truth: E Pluribus Unim. Out of many, comes one. In I Like to Be Here: Jackson Heights Revisited, or, This is a Mango, this ideal purveys every detail and aspect of the story. The requisite effect is that there is no central character. Rather, the protagonist is the community,Â…