Tag: nyc

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.

At Catapult, Alexander Chee has a self-reflective essay about a period in the early aughts when he got to sublet a friend’s plum 19th-story apartment in Gramercy Park. She let him have it for just $900 per month, a steal, which took a great deal of financial pressure off of him. This was after the […]

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A special night of storytelling with
This Land

Featuring:

Mark Singer (The New Yorker)

Rilla Askew (Author, “Fire in Beulah”)

Ginger Strand (Author, “Inventing Niagara”)

Kiera Feldman (Writer, “Grace in Broken Arrow,” “This Is My Beloved Son”)

Marcos Barbery (Journalist and Documentarian, Writer, “From One Fire”)

Wednesday, Oct. 29th, 7:00 p.m.
Free Admission

Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
126 Crosby Street
New York, NY 10012