Eric Darton

Eric Darton’s books include Free City, a novel, (WW Norton, 1996; Dalkey Archive 2020) and the New York Times bestseller Divided We Stand: A Biography of The World Trade Center (Basic Books, 1999, 2011). His writing has appeared in numerous journals and several anthologies. Darton co-edits Witty Partition, a triannual journal of world literature, wittypartition.org. He has served as an editor for Conjunctions, Frigatezine, American Letters & Commentary, and tupeloquarterly.com which also published a series of his essays. He co-wrote and is executive producer of the award-winning feature film Asphalt, Muscle & Bone in which he also appears. bookoftheworldcourant.net, his online work of independent scholarship, investigates culture, language and pedagogy. Darton teaches literature and the history of the World Trade Center at the Harry Van Arsdale Center for Labor Studies, an associates’ degree program of Empire State College (SUNY) and the IBEW Local 3. He also co-teaches an honors thesis seminar in the Urban Design program at NYU’s Department of Art History. Independently, he leads an ongoing prose workshop, Writing at the Crossroads. For more information, visit his website: ericdarton.net In addition to his literary activities, Darton practices Ba Gua Zhang, a Chinese martial art. He is certified as a foundational BGZ instructor by Internal Arts International.