More New York Stories : the Best of the City Section of The New York Times.
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 afterno...
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Table of 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 Loss5 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.
- 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 Answer10 When Johnny Comes Marching In: The Man in Camouflage Walked into the Literary Bar in the East Village, His Army Backpack Slung over His Shoulder. And No One Said a Word; Part Two: Places in the City's Heart.
- 11 Razzle-Dazzle Me: Times Square Is Successful Because People Wait in Huge Hordes, in Numbers the Size of Entire Towns in North Dakota, for the Light to Change12 New York Was Our City on the Hill: The City Held Out Unlimited Promise. But the Reality Was a Struggle--for Money, Identity, and a Future; 13 Here Is New York, Right Where We Left It: Before Manolos and Green Apple Martinis There Were Homburgs and Short Beers, among Countless Evocative Remnants of an Earlier Era That Endure, Often Uneasily, in the Glitziest City on Earth.
