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The Death and Life of the Greatest American City

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands October 28, 2020October 19, 2022

“The city feels simultaneously attacked, abandoned, and bereft of competent leadership. It also feels very, very alive.” In an essay at GEN, Glynnis MacNicol explores New York City’s #NoFilter era.

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.

Essays & 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.

Editor'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.

Mourning the Low-Rent, Weirdo-Filled East Village of Old

by Sari Botton July 24, 2017October 19, 2022

A chapter excerpted from Vanishing New York: How a Great City Lost its Soul, by Vanishing New York blogger “Jeremiah Moss” (the pseudonym for activist and psychoanalyst Griffin Hansbury). Moss traces the current wave of what he calls hyper-gentrification back to the Koch era.

Nonfiction, Quotes

Alexander Chee on Writing, Success, and Subletting Below Chloë Sevigny

by Sari Botton September 16, 2015October 19, 2022

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 […]