Leaving New York : writers look back /
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| Language: | English |
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Saint Paul, MN :
Hungry Mind Press,
[1995]
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| Edition: | First U.S. edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Excerpt from Jazz / Toni Morrison
- Change / Frank Conroy
- Leaving New York and Staying / Kathleen Norris
- Jewish Geography / Leslie Brody
- The things we do for love / Mona Simpson
- Farewell / Willie Morris
- A village life / Derek Walcott
- 3 a.m. in New York / Jean Valentine
- Heartbeat / Lucie Brock-Broido
- Une Lettre a New York / Henri Cole
- The city in which I love you / Li-Young Lee
- A phonecall from Frank O'Hara / Anne Waldman
- Sometimes you talk about Idaho / Pam Houston
- A house on the heights / Truman Capote
- Accumulation / John Updike
- Putting myself together / Jamaica Kincaid
- The American scene / Henry James
- My lost city / F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Apology for breathing / A.J. Liebling
- Stalking the billion-footed beast / Tom Wolfe
- The return of the native / Harold Brodkey
- Canary / Rita Dove
- Autumn in New York / Vernon Duke
- Excerpt from The same river twice / Chris Offutt
- Talking New York / Bob Dylan
- Hard times in New York town / Bob Dylan
- Goodbye to all that / Joan Didion
- Do you miss New York / David Frishberg
- Elsewhere in the empire / Bill McKibben
- Courage of turtles / Edward Hoagland
- Water songs / Terry Tempest Williams
- Times square water music / Amy Clampitt
- Greetings in New York City / James Wright.