Umfang:
1 online resource (310 pages)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780814769027
Inhalt:
What do Francine Prose, Suketu Mehta, and Edwidge Danticat have in common? Each suffers from an incurable love affair with the Big Apple, and each contributed to the canon of writing New York has inspired by way of the New York Times City Section, a part of the paper that once defined Sunday afternoon leisure for the denizens of the five boroughs. Former City Section editor Constance Rosenblum has again culled a diverse cast of voices that brought to vivid life our metropolis through those pages in this follow-up to the publication New York Stories (2005). The fifty essays in More New York Stories unite the city's best-known writers to provide a window to the bustle and richness of city life. As with the previous collection, many of the contributors need no introduction, among them Kevin Baker, Laura Shaine Cunningham, Dorothy Gallagher, Colin Harrison, Frances Kiernan, Nathaniel Rich, Jonathan Rosen, Christopher Sorrentino, and Robert Sullivan; they are among the most eloquent observers of our urban life. Others are relative newcomers. But all are voices worth listening to, and the result is a comprehensive and entertaining picture of New York in all its many guises. The section on "Characters'' offers a bouquet of indelible profiles. The section on "Places"takes us on journeys to some of the city's quintessential locales. "Rituals, Rhythms, and Ruminations" seeks to capture the city's peculiar texture, and the section called "Excavating the Past" offers slices of the city's endlessly fascinating history. Delightful for dipping into and a great companion for anyone planning a trip, this collection is both a heart-warming introduction to the human side of New York and a reminder to life-long New Yorkers of the reasons we call the city home.
Inhalt:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One: Characters -- 1 Mr. Maxwell and Me: It Was the Mid-60's, and She Was the Dutiful Secretary of an Esteemed Editor at The New Yorker. In a Few Short Years the World Changed, and She Was the One in the Editor's Chair -- 2 Strumming toward Self-Awareness: For Years, She Had Seen the Fliers Promoting His Lessons. Then She Inherited a Guitar and Gave Him a Try. Once -- 3 Her Private Serenade: His Cheerful Whistling Floated through the Window of Her West Village Apartment, and Captured Her Heart. If Only He Knew -- 4 Tom's World: Sometimes, We Know a Place through One Person. When He Dies, the Whole Neighborhood Goes Pale with the Loss -- 5 In Noah's Room: The Life and Death of a Gifted Young Man with an Unquiet Mind -- 6 The Days and Nights of Maurice Cherry: Twice a Day, Every Day, He Traveled Back and Forth by Bus between Chinatown and the Casinos of Atlantic City, Not to Gamble but to Avoid a Life Lived Almost Entirely on the Street -- 7 Werner Kleeman's Private War: Though Today He Lives Quietly in Flushing, Queens, More than 60 Years Ago, as an American Soldier, This Holocaust Survivor Returned to His Native Germany to Arrest the Nazi Who Had Arrested Him -- 8 The Chicken and Rice Man: Every Day of the Year, Jorge Muñoz Feeds the Mostly Homeless Men Who Congregate under the Roosevelt Avenue El in Jackson Heights, Queens. "He Got No Life," His Sister Said of Him. "But He Got a Big Heart." -- 9 A Life, Interrupted: The Young Woman, Who Had Been Missing for Nearly Three Weeks, Was Floating Face Down off the Southern Tip of Manhattan. Miraculously, She Was Rescued. But the Explanation for What Had Happened Raised Questions That Would Take a Long Time to Answer.
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ISBN 9780814776544
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780814776544
Sprache:
Englisch
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