More New York Stories : : The Best of the City Section of The New York Times / / ed. by Constance Rosenblum.

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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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2010]
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Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part One. Characters
  • 1. Mr. Maxwell and Me
  • 2. Strumming toward Self-Awareness
  • 3. Her Private Serenade
  • 4. Tom’s World
  • 5. In Noah’s Room
  • 6. The Days and Nights of Maurice Cherry
  • 7. Werner Kleeman’s Private War
  • 8. The Chicken and Rice Man
  • 9. A Life, Interrupted
  • 10. When Johnny Comes Marching In
  • Part Two. Places in the City’s Heart
  • 11. Razzle-Dazzle Me
  • 12. New York Was Our City on the Hill
  • 13. Here Is New York, Right Where We Left It
  • 14. Comfort Food
  • 15. The Great Awakening
  • 16. The Worst Ballpark in the World
  • 17. A Toast, with a Shot and a Beer
  • 18. The Secret Life of Hanover Square
  • 19. New York’s Lighthouse
  • 20. Call It Booklyn
  • 21. Breathless, Buoyant
  • 22. In the Courtyard of Miracles and Wonders
  • 23. Stranger in a Strange Land
  • 24. Hard Times along Gasoline Alley
  • 25. A Game of Inches
  • Part Three. Rituals, Rhythms, and Ruminations
  • 26. Please Get Me Out of Here Please
  • 27. The Starling Chronicles
  • 28. A Chance to Be Mourned
  • 29. Doodles à la Carte
  • 30. Unstoppable
  • 31. The Urban Ear
  • 32. Children of Darkness
  • 33. Tunnel Vision
  • 34. The Unthinkable, Right around the Corner
  • 35. His City, Lost and Found
  • 36. Any Given Monday
  • 37. Lemon Zest
  • 38. Tree Proud
  • 39. Faces in the Crowd
  • 40. Fertility Rites
  • 41. His Kind of River
  • 42. Soul Train
  • Part Four. Excavating the Past
  • 43. A Mother Lost and Found
  • 44. Battle in Black and White
  • 45. Morrisania Melody
  • 46. BoHo, Back in the Day
  • 47. Was He the Eggman?
  • 48. When He Was Seventeen
  • 49. A Long Day’s Journey into Lip Gloss
  • 50. Always, the Crack of the Bat
  • About the Contributors
  • About the Editor