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Insomniac City : New York, Oliver, and me / Bill Hayes.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hayes, Bill, 1961- author, photographer.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hayes, Bill, 1961-.
- Hayes, Bill.
- Hayes, Bill, 1961---Diaries.
- Hayes, Bill, 1961---Relations with men.
- Sacks, Oliver, 1933-2015.
- Sacks, Oliver.
- National Book Committee.
- Street photography.
- Neurologists.
- Essayists.
- Photographers.
- Gay men.
- Manners and customs.
- Relations with men.
- New York (N.Y.)--Social life and customs--21st century.
- New York (N.Y.).
- New York (N.Y.)--Social life and customs--Portraits.
- Gay men--New York (State)--New York--Biography.
- Authors--Biography.
- Authors.
- Photographers--New York (State)--New York--Biography.
- Essayists--New York (State)--New York--Biography.
- Neurologists--New York (State)--New York--Biography.
- Street photography--New York (State)--New York.
- New York (State)--New York.
- Local Subjects:
- Sacks, Oliver, 1933-2015.
- Gay men--New York (State)--New York--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Portraits.
- Diaries.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- 291 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Bloomsbury, 2017.
- Summary:
- A "celebration of what [writer and photographer] Bill Hayes calls 'the evanescent, the eavesdropped, the unexpected' of life in New York City, and an intimate glimpse of his relationship with the late [neurologist] Oliver Sacks"--Amazon.com.
- Contents:
- Part I: Insomniac City
- Insomniac City
- Sleep: loss
- Black crow
- O and I
- On becoming a New Yorker
- Subway Lifer
- The summer Michael Jackson dies
- A fisherman on the subway
- A poem written on the stars
- The moving man
- For the skateboarders
- Part II: On being not dead
- The thank-you man
- The same taxi twice
- The weeping man
- On being not dead
- On a typewriter
- At the skateboard park
- A woman who knew her way
- Driving a supermodel
- Lessons from the smoke shop
- A year in trees
- On Father's Day
- Part III: How New York breaks your heart
- My afternoon with Ilona
- His name is Raheem
- A Monet of one's own
- But
- Everything that I don't have
- A pencil sharpener
- Home
- Postscript.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Hiram G. Haney Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1620404931
- 9781620404935
- OCLC:
- 971246712
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