Never Can Say Goodbye

Writers on Their Unshakable Love for New York

Sari Botton

• Publisher: Gallery Books
• Year: 2014
• Topic: Literature
• eBook ISBN:
  9781476784434
• Subtopic: Social Science Biographies
• Index: Literature

From the editor of the celebrated anthology Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving New York, comes a new collection of original essays on what keeps writers tethered to New York City.

The “charming” (The New York Times) first anthology Goodbye to All That—inspired by Joan Didion’s classic essay about loving and leaving Manhattan—chronicled the difficulties and disappointments inherent in loving New York, while Never Can Say Goodbye is a celebration of the city that never sleeps, in the tradition of E.B. White’s classic essay, “Here Is New York.”

Featuring contributions from such luminaries as Elizabeth Gilbert, Susan Orlean, Nick Flynn, Adelle Waldman, Phillip Lopate, Owen King, Amy Sohn, and many others, this collection of essays is a must-have for every lover of New York—regardless of whether or not you call the Big Apple home.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Dedication
• Introduction
• New York, in the Mirror
• Stay Hungry
• New York and the Night
• To Live and Die in New York
• The Goodbye Girl
• A Guy Named Wade
• The City, Hoarded
• All I Really Need to Know I Learned in New York City
• New York Three Times
• The Muse of the Coyote Ugly Saloon
• City of Tongues
• But Why Did You Move Here?
• Manhattan
• Royalty
• Me Love Brooklyn
• New York Cool
• The Shvitz at the End of the World
• Quit Everything
• City of Mundane Fantasy
• SF → NYC
• Publishing: A Like Story
• ESB
• The Studied Knowledgeability of the Native New Yorker
• Hot Time in the Old Town
• Conversions: Coming of Identity in Late-Nineties New York
• Brooklyn and Me
• The Replacements
• About the Contributors
• Acknowledgments
• About Sari Botton
• Copyright