At the strangers' gate : arrivals in New York / Adam Gopnik.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gopnik, Adam, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gopnik, Adam--Family.

Gopnik, Adam.

Gopnik, Adam--Friends and associates.

New York (N.Y.)--Description and travel.

New York (N.Y.).

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

New York (N.Y.)--Social life and customs--20th century.

Physical Description:

253 pages ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2017.

Summary:

"From The New York Times best-selling author of Paris to the Moon and beloved New Yorker writer, a memoir that captures the romance of New York City in the 1980s. When Adam Gopnik and his soon-to-be-wife, Martha, left the comforts of home in Montreal for New York, the city then, much like today, was a pilgrimage site for the young, the arty, and the ambitious. But it was also becoming a city of greed, where both life's consolations and its necessities were increasingly going to the highest bidder. At the Stranger's Gate builds a portrait of this particular moment in New York through the story of this couple's journey--from their excited arrival as aspiring artists to their eventual growth into a New York family. Gopnik transports us to his tiny basement room on the Upper East Side, and later to SoHo, where he captures a unicorn: an affordable New York loft. He takes us through his professional meanderings, from graduate student-cum-library-clerk to the corridors of Conde Nast and the galleries of MoMA. Between tender and humorous reminiscences, including affectionate portraits of Richard Avedon, Robert Hughes, and Jeff Koons, among many others, Gopnik discusses the ethics of ambition, the economy of creative capital, and the peculiar anthropology of artand aspiration in New York, then and now"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The blue room. The blue room and the big store

The first fall

Food fight

My first job

Seeing Theo

The simple logic of summer shirts

Men making pictures of women wearing clothes

The big store. SoHo, 1983

Writing

Sleeping and talking

Wanderings.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Schneidman fund bookplate.

ISBN:

9781400041800 : HRD

1400041805 : HRD