More New York Stories : the Best of the City Section of The New York Times.

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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Main Author: Rosenblum, Constance
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : NYU Press, 2010.
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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 Sto.
Item Description:7 Werner Kleeman's Private War: Though Today He Lives Quietly in Flushing, Queens, More than 60 Years Ago, as an American Soldier, This Holocaust Survivor Returned to His Native Germany to Arrest the Nazi Who Had Arrested Him8 The Chicken and Rice Man: Every Day of the Year, Jorge Muñoz Feeds the Mostly Homeless Men Who Congregate under the Roosevelt Avenue El in Jackson Heights, Queens. "He Got No Life," His Sister Said of Him. "But He Got a Big Heart."
14 Comfort Food: For a While, He Was a Regular at Frank's Gourmet Deli on Smith Street in Carroll Gardens. But Some Connections, like Apartment Leases, Are Only Short-Term.
Physical Description:1 online resource (310 pages)
ISBN:9780814769027
0814769020
9780814776735
0814776736
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.