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Book SynopsisUnites New York's best-known writers to provide a window to the bustle and richness of city life
Trade Review[T]his commemorative collection captures the essence of New York's distinctive urban life. * Library Journal *
Three Hudson valley women contributed outstanding personal essays in this lively collection of urban musings. -- Chronogram Magazine * Chronogram Magazine *
New York is the plural city par excellence, the place of many tales. This new collection, taken from the pages of the city paper, gives us a new luxuriance of New York stories, neither neatly splashy nor narrowly sociological, but instead with the spice and eccentricity and plural energy that New Yorkers will recognize as ours and non-New Yorkers may wish was theirs. -- Adam Gopnik,author of Through The Children’s Gate: A Home In New York
The City section was an invaluable counterpoint, almost a stowaway, on the cruise liner of the Sunday New York Times. It delivered news that stays newsindelible and intimate stories of city life, by turns disturbing, amusing, and enchanting. The pieces in this collection are as alive now as they were when they first saw newsprint. Reading them again, even across a distance of years, was like bumping into old friends. -- Thomas Beller,author of The Sleep-Over Artist and How to Be a Man
Former section editor Rosenblum gathers 50 of the best pieces of the postSeptember 11 era by masters of the form including Edwidge Danticat and Francine Prosethis rich sampling delivers. * Publishers Weekly *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Part One CharactersPart Two Places in the City's HeartPart Three Rituals, Rhythms, and RuminationsPart Four Excavating the PastAbout the Contributors About the Editor
