In Letters of Note: New York, Shaun Usher curates a collection of extraordinary written exchanges about the Big Apple, from the marvelling of wide-eyed newcomers and the devoted outpourings of native citizens, to the frustrated outcries of the dispossessed and the fond reminiscences of old-timers.
Includes letters by:
Italo Calvino, Ralph Ellison
Kahlil Gibran, Helen Keller, Martin Scorsese
Saum Song Bo, Rebecca West
& many more.
- 144 pages
- English
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Letters of Note: New York
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Table of contents
- Introduction
- 01 I’m in Love with N.Y.
- 02 The Blessings of Pure Air
- 03 We shall Overcome
- 04 Shadows Run after me
- 05 They are Being Had
- 06 You would be so Proud
- 07 You could Fry an Egg on the Pavement
- 08 Five Accidents in Two Minutes
- 09 Let me take You to Strawberry Fields
- 10 The Last Mad Empire on Earth
- 11 The Bridge – The Bridge! Give us the Bridge!
- 12 The Factory
- 13 Liberty, We Chinese do Love and Adore Thee
- 14 I’m Sick Thinking of The Whole Mess
- 15 The Bowery was its Own World
- 16 The Seat of the Empire
- 17 The Time has Come to Protest
- 18 You are her People’s Last Hope
- 19 So much for The Police System
- 20 New York has Swallowed me up
- 21 This is a Vast City
- 22 The Empire State Building
- 23 Nothing But Gas, Gas, Gas
- 24 It is Beyond Description
- 25 They wish to make it Their Home
- 26 The New York State Lifer
- 27 A Pale Humanity Patters Along
- 28 So here We are in New York
- 29 Dear New York City
- Permission Credits
- Acknowledgments
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