In this collection of spirited essays, Trebay reports on the dramatic and subtle changes in his city during the 1980s and 1990s. Tuned in to the stray comment and the characteristic gesture, he charts the city's history eye-to-eye with the people who made it. "When I was a kid in New York, the subways were a place for perfect comportment: riders took their seats, made a vertical fold in the Times, crossed ankles (women), adjusted hats, smoothed the skirts of their Peck & Peck suits, and shut up...I couldn't tell you the moment when the subway became a nonstop subterranean exercise in group therapy with the spirit of Sylvia Frumkin calling the shots. But I'd guess it was in the 1970s. So much weirdness started then..." Driven by curiosity into obscure corners and marginal neighborhood of the city, a Trebay essay captures fragile moments in the life of a place or an individual. Accompanied perfectly by Sylvia Plachy's often mystical, odd-angled photographs, the essays create a kaleidoscope of people, places, and conversations in the city that is constantly reinventing itself.
Trebay freeze-frames it all, even the seemingly permanent "air of self-importance, a conviction that when you're here, you're in the place to be." Author note: Guy Trebay, a columnist and senior editor at The Village Voice, writes frequently for The New Yorker, Vibe, Conde Nast Traveler, Grand Street, and many other national publications.
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"This is a frank and engaging look at a city that teaches its inhabitants not to make eye contact." --The New York Times "New York has been in a journalistic crisis for years, with almost everyone unsure of how to cover the new city that is emerging--a city of immigrants and poor people, great pains and hard pleasures, needles and trash and rhythms and spices and smells. Guy Trebay is a magnificent exception to this dreary rule: as E.B. White did in his day, Trebay comprehends both the particulars of this new New York and the mood they add up to. He is an absolutely necessary reporter, and also a pleasure to read." --Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature "Trebay, a columnist and editor at the Village Voice, is a good writer, a gutsy man and a mensch... Since 1981, Trebay has watched and listened to New Yorkers, opening up parts of the city generally beyond his readers' purview...these human-interest stories are worth dipping into." --Publishers Weekly
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Höhe: 250 mm
Breite: 150 mm
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978-1-56639-278-5 (9781566392785)
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Introduction Parts of Speech 1. Talk That Talk Some Originals 2. Worlds in a Small Room 3. Down There on a Visit 4. The End of the World in Wax 5. 'Mach Schnell,' Shortcakes! 6. The Job Well Done 7. Baucis and Philemon in the Bronx 8. Candy Says 9. Hoofing It 10. My Grandson the Shaman The Sweet Sell 11. Junk 'n' Stuff 12. Deaf Jam 13. Broadway Hustle 14. Insane!!! 15. I'm Dreaming of a White Column 16. Going Off 17. In the Salsa Zone Kinship 18. Kanesha and Aunt Te 19. The World as We Knew It 20. Thomas Wilson's Unfinished Business 21. Turn On, Turn In 22. Bronx Cheer 23. The Mourning News Rituals 24. The Horse Knows the Way 25. Have a Fresh Day 26. Under One Tent 27. Le Look 28. Net Gain, Net Loss 29. Reasons to be Cheerful 30. The Countdown 31. Eyes on the Prize 32. What Is Love? The Faith 33. Let Every Heart Prepare Him Room 34. He Want You But He Do Not Need You 35. God's Acre 36. Bless the Beasts 37. Articles of Faith Pangloss City 38. The Strange Garden of David Hammons 39. The Rose and the Thorn 40. Machine Dreams 41. Purple Reign 42. Mixed Greens Dreams Deferred 43. A Pompeian Flower in New York 44. Too Many Tellings 45. Tunnel Vision 46. One More Sot 47. Hanging in the Flow 48. Dog Day Afternoon 49. Drug Rules 50. The War at Home 51. Rules of the Game 52. Urban Underdevelopment High Times 53. Swing Time 54. Land of a Thousand Dances 55. Circus Nerves 56. The Spirit Is Willing 57. Guerillas Night Out 58. Come as Your Are 59. Come Here Often? Under One Sky 60. Auk Auk Auk 61. WET 62. Wild Style 63. Heap of Trouble 64. Rites of Spring 65. The Hole Story 66. Closed for the Season 67. "_ _ _ _ _" 68. The Three Bears 69. A Very Young Elephant 70. Life at C Everything Must Go 71. Everything Must Go
