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Title:

Never can say goodbye : writers on their unshakable love for New York / edited by Sari Botton.

Edition:

First Touchstone trade paperback edition.

Publisher:

Simon & Schuster,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

xix, 232 pages ; 23 cm

Subject:

American literature--New York.--New York.
City and town life--New York--New York--Literary collections.
Authors, American--Homes and haunts--New York.--New York.
New York (N.Y.)--Literary collections.
New York (N.Y.)--Biography.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.
TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues.

Other Authors:

Botton, Sari, 1965- editor.

Notes:

"Touchstone book".

Contents:

The replacements / Nick Flynn. Stay hungry / Jason Diamond -- New York and the night / Patricia Engel -- To live and die in New York / Phillip Lopate -- The goodbye girl / Anna Holmes -- A guy named Wade / Jon-jon Goulian -- The city, hoarded / Colin Harrison -- All I really need to know I learned in New York City / Whoopi Goldberg -- New York three times / Alexander Chee -- The use of the Coyote Ugly Saloon / Elizabeth Gilbert -- City of tongues / Jenna Wortham -- But why did you move here? / Stephen Elliott -- Manhattan / Julie Klam -- Royalty / Susan Orlean -- ME LOVE BROOKLYN / Adam Sternbergh -- New York cool / Sari Botton -- The shvitz at the end of the world / Brian Macaluso -- Quit everything / Kathleen Hale -- City of mundane fantasy / Elliott Kalan -- SF -> NYC / Isaac Fitzgerald -- Publishing: a like story / Maris Kreizman -- ESB / Rachel Syme -- The studied knowledgeability of the native New Yorker / Amy Sohn -- Hot time in the old town / Owen King -- Conversions: coming of identity in late-nineties New York / Porochista Khakpour -- Brooklyn and me / Adelle Waldman -- The replacements / Nick Flynn.

Summary:

"From the editor of the celebrated anthology Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving New York, comes a new collection of original essays on what keeps writers tethered to New York City. Featuring contributions from such luminaries as Elizabeth Gilbert, Susan Orlean, Nick Flynn, Adelle Waldman, Phillip Lopate, Owen King, Amy Sohn, and many others, this collection of essays is a must-have for every lover of New York--regardless of whether or not you call the Big Apple home"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

147678440X (pbk.)
9781476784403 (pbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)884961608

LCCN:

2014021591

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)

CDPF771 -- Clive Public Library (Clive)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)