A book as effervescent and alive as the city itself. My First New York features candid accounts of coming to New York by more than fifty of the most remarkable people who have called the city home. Here are true stories of long nights out and wild nights in, of first dates and lost loves, of memorable meals and miserable jobs, of slow walks up Broadway and fast subway rides downtown. The contributors—a mix of actors, artists, comedians, entrepreneurs, musicians, politicians, sports stars, writers, and others—reflect an enormous variety of experiences: few have arrived with less than filmmaker Jonas Mekas, a concentration-camp survivor on a UN refugee ship; few have swanned in with more than designer Diane von Furstenberg, a princess . And an extraordinary number managed to land in New York just as something historic was happening—the artist Cindy Sherman arrived in the middle of the Summer of Sam; restaurateur Danny Meyer came on the day John Lennon was shot. Arranged chronologically, these moving and memorable stories combine to form an impressionistic history of New York since the Great Depression. They also provide an accidental encyclopedia of New York hotspots through the ages: from the Cedar Tavern and the Gaslight to LutÈce and Elaine's, from Max's Kansas City and the Mudd Club to the Odeon and Bungalow 8, they're all here, dots on the unbroken line of the Next Next things. Taken together, My First New York is a collection of fifty-six testaments to a larger revelation, one that new arrivals of all stripes and all eras have experienced again and again in New York, regardless of how the city proceeds to treat them: what the songwriter Rufus Wain-wright calls "having cracked the code of living life to the fullest." Contributors include André Aciman, Susanne Bartsch, Yogi Berra, Mary Boone, Naomi Campbell, Graydon Carter, David Chang, Chuck Close, Judy Collins, Nick Denton, Danny DeVito, Agnes Deyn, David Dinkins, Ashley Dupré, Nora Ephron, Harold Evans, James Franco, Ira Glass, Michel Gondry, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Albert Hammond Jr., Keith Hernandez, Lauren Hutton, Jenny Joslin, Zoe Kazan, Larry Kramer, Padma Lakshmi, Daniel Libeskind, Michael Lucas, Lorin Maazel, Colum McCann, Audra McDonald, Jonas Mekas, Danny Meyer, Lorne Michaels, Liza Minnelli, Mike Myers, Parker Posey, David Rakoff, Dan Rather, Chita Rivera, James Rosenquist, Andy Samberg, Amy Sedaris, Chloe Sevigny, Cindy Sherman, Gary Shteyngart, Nate Silver, Liz Smith, Paul Taylor, Tommy Tune, Diane von Furstenberg, Rufus Wainwright, Kara Walker, Jann Wenner, and Tom Wolfe
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圖書標籤: 紐約 NYC Short_Stories 2015
紐約是個奇妙的城市。你很難不被它的多樣性吸引。在這個城市,你可以做自己,不用去迎閤彆人。如果能在紐約生存,就能在世界任何地方生存。我也想模仿書中的文體,寫下我初次到訪紐約的經曆,敬請期待。
評分紐約是個奇妙的城市。你很難不被它的多樣性吸引。在這個城市,你可以做自己,不用去迎閤彆人。如果能在紐約生存,就能在世界任何地方生存。我也想模仿書中的文體,寫下我初次到訪紐約的經曆,敬請期待。
評分每次趕著要考試時就有動力和執行力去看閑書????這本買瞭很久真的好看!算是百傢版扭腰情書,有深情的,有不正經的,無數個體的故事組成瞭扭腰的故事,扭腰的模樣,扭腰的魅力。五六十年代到如今的扭腰客們,曾經都是異鄉人,各有各的理由,各有各的苦兮兮。但這個城市能讓這麼多人都義無反顧前赴後繼,其魅力就在於什麼樣的人都能fit in。題外話是這本書簡直是學英語的利器,太多詞和用法查完後恍然大悟狀……
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評分每次趕著要考試時就有動力和執行力去看閑書????這本買瞭很久真的好看!算是百傢版扭腰情書,有深情的,有不正經的,無數個體的故事組成瞭扭腰的故事,扭腰的模樣,扭腰的魅力。五六十年代到如今的扭腰客們,曾經都是異鄉人,各有各的理由,各有各的苦兮兮。但這個城市能讓這麼多人都義無反顧前赴後繼,其魅力就在於什麼樣的人都能fit in。題外話是這本書簡直是學英語的利器,太多詞和用法查完後恍然大悟狀……
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