From the Book - First Touchstone trade paperback edition.
New York, in the mirror / Rosanne Cash --
Stay hungry / Jason Diamond --
New York and the night / Patricia Engel --
To live and die in New York / Phillip Lopate --
The goodbye girl / Anna Holmes --
A guy named Wade / Jon-jon Goulian --
The city, hoarded / Colin Harrison --
All I really need to know I learned in New York City / Whoopi Goldberg --
New York three times / Alexander Chee --
The use of the Coyote Ugly Saloon / Elizabeth Gilbert --
City of tongues / Jenna Wortham --
But why did you move here? / Stephen Elliott --
Manhattan / Julie Klam --
Royalty / Susan Orlean --
ME LOVE BROOKLYN / Adam Sternbergh --
New York cool / Sari Botton --
The shvitz at the end of the world / Brian Macaluso --
Quit everything / Kathleen Hale --
City of mundane fantasy / Elliott Kalan --
SF -> NYC / Isaac Fitzgerald --
Publishing: a like story / Maris Kreizman --
The studied knowledgeability of the native New Yorker / Amy Sohn --
Hot time in the old town / Owen King --
Conversions: coming of identity in late-nineties New York / Porochista Khakpour --
Brooklyn and me / Adelle Waldman --
The replacements / Nick Flynn.