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Goodbye to All That

Posted inEditor's Pick

The New York You Once Knew Is Gone. The One You Loved Remains.

by Sari Botton April 16, 2020October 19, 2022

In this pandemic-inspired variation on the Goodbye to All That essay, Glynnis MacNicol writes about what it’s like to have stayed in the current ghost town version of New York City when so many other New Yorkers have departed for greener pastures, and considers the city’s, and city-dwellers’ history of resilience through hard times.

Posted inEditor's Pick

The First Time I Moved to New York

by Sari Botton October 29, 2018October 19, 2022

The fantasies Alexander Chee had of New York before he moved there didn’t fully prepare him for what it was like to love the city.

Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Featured, Nonfiction

The First Time I Moved to New York

by Alexander Chee October 29, 2018October 19, 2022

The fantasies Alexander Chee had of New York before he moved there didn’t fully prepare him for what it was like to love the city.

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Featured, Nonfiction, Story

The First Time I Moved to New York

by Alexander Chee October 29, 2018October 19, 2022

The fantasies Alexander Chee had of New York before he moved there didn’t fully prepare him for what it was like to love the city.

Posted inBooks, Nonfiction

Think of This as a Window: Remembering the Life and Work of Maggie Estep

by Longreads February 18, 2015October 19, 2022

“I moved to Lower Manhattan when I was seventeen. The only things I cared about were books and music.”

Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Story

Think of This as a Window: Remembering the Life and Work of Maggie Estep

by Longreads February 18, 2015October 19, 2022

“I moved to Lower Manhattan when I was seventeen. The only things I cared about were books and music.”

Posted inFiction, Nonfiction, Reading List

Reading List: Leaving the Places We've Lived

by mikedang December 1, 2013October 19, 2022

Emily Perper is a word-writing human working at a small publishing company. She blogs about her favorite longreads at Diet Coker. Everyone is writing about leaving New York, it seems. But Isaac Fitzgerald just arrived in NYC, and some of the writers in the delightful anthology Goodbye To All That have returned. Of course, there […]

Posted inFiction, Nonfiction, Reading List

Reading List: Leaving the Places We've Lived

by mikedang December 1, 2013October 19, 2022

Emily Perper is a word-writing human working at a small publishing company. She blogs about her favorite longreads at Diet Coker. Everyone is writing about leaving New York, it seems. But Isaac Fitzgerald just arrived in NYC, and some of the writers in the delightful anthology Goodbye To All That have returned. Of course, there […]

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