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Summary: I haven't read this book, but I do have a comment:
Review: I'd like to point out a bit of irony to my fellow reviewer in Topeka, Kansas who complained, "I can't imagine it was proofread carefully," and found countless mistakes in "grammer."
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Summary: Delightful and Intriguing Read
Review: I'm a transplant from San Francisco but have always been a New Yorker at heart. Every morning, while drinking my coffee, I read a few of these essays, poems and stories. I love this island and city and I love reading about it. Truly a delight for any New Yorker or New York lover.
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Summary: Delightful and Intriguing Read
Review: I'm a transplant from San Francisco but have always been a New Yorker at heart. Every morning, while drinking my coffee, I read a few of these essays, poems and stories. I love this island and city and I love reading about it. Truly a delight for any New Yorker or New York lover.
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Summary: Another one for the kansas guy
Review: someone "acttually" worte this... proofread your own stuff before you submit it, if you're complaining about "grammer"
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Summary: Another one for the kansas guy
Review: someone "acttually" worte this... proofread your own stuff before you submit it, if you're complaining about "grammer"
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Summary: A classic collection of literary and historical New York
Review: This anthology of fiction and memoirs about America's first city offers as vivid a picture of New York City life and attitudes as any history book. Open the book at random, and there is something worth reading: George Templeton Strong wondering in his diary: "Is it the doom of all men in this century to be weighed down with the incumbrance of a desire to make money and save money, all their days?" (in 1852!); Stephen Crane writing of a man's moral dilemma over the false arrest of a possible prostitute; Ralph Ellison noting in "New York, 1936" that: "in the hustle and bustle of that most theatrical of American cities, one was accepted on the basis of what one appeared to be." Then there's the fiction and the anthropological excerpts which offer pleasures of their own. One of Damon Runyon's stories about the "Guys and Dolls" of Broadway is here, a tougher story than one would expect from him. A selection from Oscar Hijuelos' "The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love" is here as well. Joseph Mitchell's "Up in the Old Hotel," an observation piece written for The New Yorker and Zora Neale Hurston's "Story in Harlem Slang." "Writing New York" is a convivial convention, probably the only gathering of New York wits and writers and reporters we're likely to see this side of heaven. Reading it alongside "Gotham" from Oxford University Press fleshes out a portrait of a great city that may be down at times, but can never be counted out.
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Summary: Amazing Tribute to the Phenomena of NYC
Review: This collection was the centerpiece of a course I recently took on Literary NY. Every piece of writing in this collection is memorable, evoking the timelessness of the place, from Washington Irving to Joan Didion, with a wide spectrum between. There are wonderful observational and personal essays, socio-political satires, poetry and short fiction all highlighting the on-going phenomena of this most fascinating of cities. The writers, some well-known and some lost in their time, all record from the heart. What struck me most while reading these wonderful pieces, is how some things truly never change, and how so many of the 'progressive' changes irrevocably destroyed the natural rhythms and space. There is something of interest here for everyone. I strongly recommend this collection.
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Summary: Amazing Tribute to the Phenomena of NYC
Review: This collection was the centerpiece of a course I recently took on Literary NY. Every piece of writing in this collection is memorable, evoking the timelessness of the place, from Washington Irving to Joan Didion, with a wide spectrum between. There are wonderful observational and personal essays, socio-political satires, poetry and short fiction all highlighting the on-going phenomena of this most fascinating of cities. The writers, some well-known and some lost in their time, all record from the heart. What struck me most while reading these wonderful pieces, is how some things truly never change, and how so many of the 'progressive' changes irrevocably destroyed the natural rhythms and space. There is something of interest here for everyone. I strongly recommend this collection.
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