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New York stories : the best of the city section of the New York Times
“There are eight million stories in the Naked City.” This famous line from the 1948 film The Naked City has become an emblem of New York City itself. One publication cultivating many of New York City's greatest stories is the City section in The New York Times . Each Sunday, this section of The New York Times , distributed only in papers in the five boroughs, captivates readers with tales of people and places that make the city unique.
Featuring a cast of stellar writers—Phillip Lopate, Vivian Gornick, Thomas Beller and Laura Shaine Cunningham, among others— New York Stories brings some of the best essays from the City section to readers around the country. New Yorkers can learn something new about their city, while other readers will enjoy the flavor of the Big Apple. New York Stories profiles people like sixteen-year-old Barbara Ott, who surfs the waters off Rockaway in Queens, and Sonny Payne, the beloved panhandler of the F train. Other essays explore memorable places in the city, from the Greenwich Village townhouse blown up by radical activists in the 1970s to a basketball court that serves as the heart of its Downtown neighborhood.
The forty essays collected in New York Stories reflect an intimate understanding of the city, one that goes beyond the headlines. The result is a passionate, well-written portrait of a legendary and ever-evolving place.
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More New York Stories
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 Placestakes 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.
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Once an Engineer
Finalist for the 2009 ForeWord Book of the Year in
the Autobiography/Memoir Category Once an
Engineer is a funny, tragic, garlicky chronicle of a dozen
years spent growing up on the wrong side of the tracks. The tail
end of the sixties finds Joe and his younger brother, Mike, living
with their divorced and unemployed father in a low-income
neighborhood on the edge of Syracuse, New York, a once prosperous
city now down on its luck. Mike and Joe mature under their father's
distinctively masculine tutelage, but their dreams of a better life
are tempered by the harsh realities of public assistance. When the
brothers are offered the chance to attend college, they are drawn
to the engineering profession, with its seductive promise of
middle-class wages and social status. At the same time, their
father's trade, furniture finishing, succumbs to a new era of
industrial and economic change, and as the gap between father and
sons widens, they come to learn the true costs of upward mobility.
Once an Engineer tells the story of three lives rooted in
the moods and lore of Central New York, and the difficulty of
finding meaningful work in a world gone inexorably, technologically
global.
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Open house : 35 historic Upstate New York homes
\"Upstate New York author Chuck D'Imperio takes us behind the scenes of 35 homes throughout the region that are open to the public. Each house boasts of having a famous resident from the past. Whether it be a palatial mansion in the Hudson Valley, or a rustic cabin in the Adirondacks, each home has an interesting and important story to tell. This book is meant to act as a partner to the several other Upstate New York books D'Imperio has published through Syracuse University Press\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The Body of Brooklyn
Even before the controversy that surrounded the publication ofA Million Little Pieces, the question of truth has been at the heart of memoir. From Elie Wiesel to Benjamin Wilkomirski to David Sedaris, the veracity of writers' claims has been suspect. In this fascinating and timely collection of essays, leading writers meditate on the subject of truth in literary nonfiction. As David Lazar writes in his introduction, \"How do we verify? Do we care to? (Do we dare to eat the apple of knowledge and say it's true? Or is it a peach?) Do we choose to? Is it a subcategory of faith? How do you respond when someone says, 'This is really true'? Why do they choose to say it then?\"
The past and the truth are slippery things, and the art of non-fiction writing requires the writer to shape as well as explore. In personal essays, meditations on the nature of memory, considerations of the genres of memoir, prose poetry, essay, fiction, and film, the contributors to this provocative collection attempt to find answers to the question of what truth in nonfiction means.
Contributors:
John D'Agata, Mark Doty, Su Friedrich, Joanna Frueh, Ray González, Vivian Gornick, Barbara Hammer, Kathryn Harrison, Marianne Hirsch, Wayne Koestenbaum, Leonard Kriegel, David Lazar, Alphonso Lingis, Paul Lisicky, Nancy Mairs, Nancy K. Miller, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Phyllis Rose, Oliver Sacks, David Shields, and Leo Spitzer.
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Worn in New York : 68 sartorial memoirs of the city
The boots a passenger had on when his plane landed on the Hudson River. The tank top Andy Warhol's assistant wore to one of their nightclub outings together. The jacket a taxi driver put on to feel safe as he worked the night shift. - These and over sixty other clothing-inspired narratives make up Worn in New York, the latest volume from New York Times bestselling author Emily Spivack. In these first-person accounts, contributors in and out of the public eye share surprising, personal, wild, poignant, and funny stories behind a piece of clothing that reminds them of a significant moment of their New York lives. Worn in New York offers a contemporary cultural history of the city-its changing identity, temper, and tone, and its irrepressible vitality-by paying tribute to these well-loved clothes and the people who wore them. Includes contributions from: Adam Horovitz, Amy Heckerling, Andre Royo, Anna Sui, Aubrey Plaza, Catherine Opie, Coco Rocha, Dick Cavett, Eileen Myles, Fab 5 Freddy, Gay Talese, Genesis Breye,r P-Orridge, JD Samson, Jenji Kohan, Jenna Lyons, Kyp Malone, Lena Dunham, Pee Wee Kirkland, Thelma Golden, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders.
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Mapping Manhattan
Armed with blank maps that she printed by hand, Becky Cooper hit New York City, she handed strangers she met the gray outline of their island and asked them to \"map their Manhattan\". Mapping Manhattan includes 75 maps from both anonymous mapmakers and from notable New Yorkers, and will also contain a blank map that can be filled out by the reader.
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