February 2012
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By 2005, every neighborhood in Manhattan and many in Brooklyn, too, had been engraved with one personal memory or another. I couldn’t use the bathroom in a certain diner on Sixth Avenue after having gotten violently sick there once. I couldn’t eat at a favorite vegan restaurant without reliving a Valentine’s Day break-up fight. For years I couldn’t really handle Herald Square, because the...
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Guide to Literary Tumblrs →
(via and h/t @The_Millions)
paperbackgirl wuz robbed. same with The New Inquiry.
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“It was lonely for a day or so until one morning some man, more recently arrived than I, stopped me on the road.
“How do you get to West Egg village?” he asked helplessly.
[Single Linds Reflex]
I told him. And as I walked on I was lonely no longer. I was a guide, a pathfinder, an original settler. He had casually conferred on me the freedom of the neighborhood.” —...
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January 2012
83 posts
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The 10 Best Books About New York →
“Our New York canon is large-bore: little pieces adding up to a grander context. The list is meant to be encompassing, but not complete. It is representative and intended to be sensitive to the city’s extraordinary diversity in perspectives — ideological, racial, ethnic, sexual — but it is not the product of a committee or based on a quota.
Rather, the aim is to create a...
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“He wanted this someone to see how much he hurt.” ~ Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections
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A Bookworm's Guide to Casting The Corrections →
paperbackgirl:
I put on my Hollywood director hat and wrote this for Flavorpill.
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in a city such as this even silence is its own language full of colourful nuances.
(via arsvivere)
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