More New York stories : the best of the City section of the New York times / edited by Constance Rosenblum.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rosenblum, Constance.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City and town life--New York (State)--New York--Anecdotes.

City and town life.

New York (N.Y.)--Social life and customs--Anecdotes.

New York (N.Y.).

New York (N.Y.)--Biography--Anecdotes.

New York (N.Y.)--Social conditions--Anecdotes.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (310 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 “Places”takes 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.

Contents:

More New York Stories

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

Notes:

Continues: New York stories. New York : New York University Press, c2005.

Includes index.

ISBN:

9780814769027

0814769020

9780814776735

0814776736

OCLC:

779828267