21 Writers Who Got It Right About New York City

Before Jay Z, there was Jay D. (Joan Didion. Sorry.)

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"Each neighborhood of the city appeared to be made of a different substance, each seemed to have a different air pressure, a different psychic weight: the bright lights and shuttered shops, the housing projects and luxury hotels, the fire escapes and city parks."

-- Teju Cole, Open City

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"Quite simply, I was in love with New York. I do not mean "love" in any colloquial way, I mean that I was in love with the city, the way you love the first person who ever touches you and you never love anyone quite that way again."

-- Joan Didion, "Goodbye To All That"

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