More New York Stories – The Best of the City Section of The New York Times

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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 citys 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 citys quintessential locales. Rituals, Rhythms, and Ruminations seeks to capture the citys peculiar texture, and the section called Excavating the Past offers slices of the citys 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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ISBN-13: 9780814776551
ISBN-10: 0814776558
Pagini: 308
Ilustrații: 51
Dimensiuni: 152 x 228 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.42 kg
Editura: MI – New York University

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Contents; Acknowledgments xvi; Introduction 1; Part 1: Characters; 1. Mr. Maxwell and Me 7; It was the mid-60s, and she was the dutiful secretary of an esteemed editor at the New Yorker. In a few short years the world would change, and she would be the one in the editors chair.; Frances Kiernan (Aug. 1, 2004); 2. Strumming Toward Self-Awareness 12; For years, shed seen the fliers promoting his lessons. Then she inherited a guitar and gave him a try. Once.; Laura Longhine (April 17, 2005); 3. Her Private Serenade 17; His cheerful whistling floated through the window of her West Village apartment, and captured her heart. If only he knew.; Johanna Baldwin (Aug. 7, 2005); 4. Toms World 22; Sometimes, we understand a place through one person. When he dies, the whole neighborhood goes pale with the loss.; Roy Hoffman (July 30, 2006); 5. In Noahs Room 27; The life and death of a gifted young man with an unquiet mind.; John Freeman Gill (September 17, 2006) ; 6. The Days and Nights of Maurice Cherry 37; Twice a day, every day, he traveled back and forth by bus between Chinatown and the Atlantic City casinos, not to gamble but to avoid a life lived almost entirely on the street.; Cassi Feldman (August 5, 2007); 7. Werner Kleemans Private War 46; 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.; Richard Firstman (November 11, 2007); 8. The Chicken and Rice Man 55; Every day of the year, Jorge Munoz 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.; Adam B. Ellick (November 25, 2007) ; 9. A Life, Interrupted 64; 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.; Rebecca Flint Marx and Vytenis Didziulis (March 1, 2009); 10. When Johnny Came Marching In 75; 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.; Helen Benedict (April 12, 2009); Part 2: Places in the Citys Heart; 11. Razzle-Dazzle Me 80; Times Square is successful because people wait in huge hordes, in numbers the size of entire towns in North Dakota, for the light to change.; Robert Sullivan (June 13, 2004); 12. New York Was Our City on the Hill 86; The city held out unlimited promise. But the reality was a struggle for money, identity, and a future.; Edwidge Danticat (November 21, 2004); 13. Here Is New York, Right Where We Left It 92; 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.; David McAninch (February 27, 2005); 14. Comfort Food 102; For a while, he was a regular at Franks Gourmet Deli in Carroll Gardens. But some connections, like apartment leases, are only short-term.; Jake Mooney (May 29, 2005); 15. The Great Awakening 105; In the last quarter century, waves of change have washed over New York. In Brooklyn, the transformation seems almost tidal.; Suketu Mehta (June 19, 2005); 16. The Worst Ballpark in the World 113; With the plan to build a new home for the Mets, Sheas days were numbered. Yes, the stadium sat on an ash heap and was pestered by planes. Yet there was no denying its goofy charms.; Kevin Baker (July 3, 2005); 17. A Toast, With a Shot and a Beer 119; A couple of wise guys, a musician or two, and a jukebox set on Julio, in a crummy little bar of the sort that has all but vanished from the Upper West Side.; Mitch Keller (Aug. 21, 2005); 18. The Secret Life of Hanover Square 123; By day, the downtown neighborhood was a ho-hum business district. But as windows were lighted and people with grocery bags emerged, the area revealed its hidden face.; Mark Caldwell (Sept. 11, 2005); 19. New Yorks Lighthouse 128; The building is the distinctive image of mythic New York, the city that lives in film and fiction. It is also irresistible.; Mark Kingwell (April 23, 2006) ; 20. Call It Booklyn 135; With more marquee authors than you can shake a Mont Blanc pen at, Brooklyn may be the citys grimmest borough for the up-and-coming writer.; Sara Gran (September 10, 2006); 21. Breathless, Buoyant 144; No one knows a parks smells and seasons, its contours and crannies, like a cross-country runner.; Alexander Aciman (May 20, 2007); 22. In the Courtyard of Miracles and Wonders 148; Ever since arriving in the city, he yearned to visit the cloistered haven off West 11th Street. One starlit night he got his chance.; David Masello (December 16, 2007); 23. Hard Times Along Gasoline Alley 152; The men who hang out near the service stations on Atlantic Avenue will pump your gas, fix your brakes and maybe tell you a story.; James Angelos (August 17, 2008); 24. Stranger in a Strange Land 161; On a sojourn in a SoHo hotel after a flood in his Brooklyn Heights apartment, much looked familiar. And somehow not.; Alex Rose (Aug. 3, 2008); 25. A Game of Inches 165; With the opening of a new Yankee Stadium, would Stans Sports Bar be just a little too far from the section?; Katherine Bindley (March 29, 2009); Part 3: Rituals, Rhythms, and Ruminations; 26. Please Get Me Out of Here Please 175; New Yorkers knew all about the three-day ordeal of the Chinese-food delivery man trapped in an elevator in the Bronx. They had been there, if only in their dreams.; Colin Harrison (Apr. 10, 2005) ; 27. The Starling Chronicles 180; The baby bird was small and smelly, unlikely to live long. But she fell from her nest into a cradle of love, and soon she became a New Yorker, with wings.; Laura Shaine Cunningham (Feb. 12, 2006); 28. A Chance to Be Mourned 190; After the death of one of its own, a homeless group began a search for easier ways to grieve for New Yorks nameless and unclaimed dead.; Emily Brady (November 12, 2006); 29. Doodles a la Carte 200; Once a week the cartoonists of the New Yorker assemble for lunch in Midtown, there to enjoy a little sketch, a little kvetch, and a lot of one liners.; Caroline H. Dworin (January 14, 2007); 30. Unstoppable 209; Riding a bike without brakes on the streets of New York may sound insane. But to the zealous adherents of fixed-gear bikesfixies for shortthey are a thing of beauty and a way of life. ; Jocko Weyland (April 29, 2007); 31. The Urban Ear 219; New Yorkers swim in a sea of sounds, most of them reassuringly familiar. Then once in a while comes a very different noise.; Max Page (July 22, 2007); 32. Children of Darkness 223; They plumb tunnels, trestles and other abandoned places, often illicitly, and in those shadow cities find the pulsing heart of New York; Ben Gibberd (July 29, 2007); 33. Tunnel Vision 232; Ever since childhood, she had fantasized about a hidden world below the city streets. In these dreams, she was not alone.; Katherine Marsh (Nov. 4, 2007); 34. The Unthinkable, Right Around the Corner 236; The convoy of police cars races down the city streets, sirens blaring, red lights flashing. Theyre there to protect. But they also terrify.; Francine Prose (Jan. 27, 2008) ; 35. His City, Lost and Found 240; Raised in Manhattan, he was fascinated by the changes to his native borough. Yet from his garret across the river, he did not mourn its transformation.; Nathanial Rich (February 3, 2008); 36. Any Given Monday 248; These men dont dunk. Yet every week for 33 years, they have sought to slow the passage of time on the hardwood court of a gym on the Upper West Side.; Saki Knafo (February 24, 2008); 37. Lemon Zest 256; The Scotts oriole, a fluffy yellow visitor never before sighted in New York, had come to Union Square, where it seemed utterly at home.; Jonathan Rosen (Feb. 24, 2008); 38. Tree Proud 260; The mayor pledged to plant a million trees. Sometimes it takes just one to steal your heart.; Randy Kennedy (June 1, 2008); 39. Soul Train 264; When youre listening to the music of the subway, its easy to forget where you are and where youre going. And you dont even care.; Roxana Robinson (May 17, 2009); 40. Faces in the Crowd 268; Circling the jogging loop in Prospect Park alongside Skinny Ginsberg, Big Tony, and other creatures born of a fertile imagination.; Mac Montandon (Oct. 26, 2008) ; 41. Fertility Rites 272; As she traveled about the city in search of an elusive gift, a remarkable thing happened.; Jennifer Gilmore (January 11, 2009); 42. His Kind of River 276; The Indians called the Hudson the river that runs both ways, and its majestically freaky nature makes it easy to love.; David Hajdu (March 22, 2009); Part 4: Excavating the Past; 43. A Mother, Lost and Found 281; Had some real estate god decreed that the daughter would end up in the Greenwich Village town house where her mother had lived 46 years earlier?; Ellen Pall (May 8, 2005); 44. Battle in Black and White 287; Half a century ago, the authors grandparents helped wage a war to integrate Stuyvesant Town. Even today, echoes of this little-remembered struggle linger.; Amy Fox (March 26, 2006); 45. Morrisania Melody 297; Long before fires and violence thrust the South Bronx into the national spotlight, one small patch of the community played a critical role in forging musical history.; Manny Fernandez (April 30, 2006); 46. Was He the Eggman? 307; A dashing turn-of-the-century Wall Streeter may have invented eggs Benedict. Or maybe not.; Gregory Beyer (April 8, 2007); 47. BoHo, Back in the Day 317; In the 70s, the bums on the Bowery were gallant, and an impressionable young woman could rent a sun-drenched loft for a song.; Dorothy Gallagher (Oct. 1, 2006) ; 48. When He Was Seventeen 321; You could almost buy a legal drink. Parents didnt hover so much. And if you were not really tougher than kids today, you certainly felt like your own man.; Christopher Sorrentino (September 16, 2007); 49. A Long Days Journey into Lip Gloss 328; How Sephora ate her theater, and why she hates to see blusher displays where Sam Shepards losers used to slouch.; Leslie Nipkow (Aug. 17, 2008); 50. Always, the Crack of the Bat 333; Stadiums, in the end, are just window dressing. The plays the thing.; William Zinsser (March 29, 2009); About the Contributors 337; About the Editor 345

Recenzii

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 Childrens Gate: A Home In New York

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

"[T]his commemorative collection captures the essence of New York's distinctive urban life." - Library Journal

Descriere

Unites New Yorks best-known writers to provide a window to the bustle and richness of city life

Notă biografică

Constance Rosenblum, most recently the author of the Habitats column published in the Real Estate section of The New York Times, was a longtime editor of the paper's City section and a former editor of the Times's Arts and Leisure section. She is the author of Boulevard of Dreams: Heady Times, Heartbreak, and Hope Along the Grand Concourse in the Bronx.

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