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E.B. White • Here is New York (1949)
Los Angeles is the city where dreams are born and bred. As a dreamer recently let go from her full-time job, LA — my home of almost six hears — has now become a playground of possibilities. This summer, I'd like to explore the corners, cuisines, and characters of this starry-eyed city with renewed perspective. As a hotbed for community gatherings,
... See moreNew York struck her as impossible for another reason. Jacaranda was afraid of New York—all alone by herself, with no ocean (the Atlantic was not an ocean). She’d heard from infancy that South Carolina was just about the only place on that East Coast where you could surf, and if you couldn’t surf on an ocean, it wasn’t the ocean. She’d be all alone
... See moreEve Babitz • Sex and Rage: A Novel
I was lost in my fantasy, ignoring Dave Brubeck and coming up for air only when my father elbowed my ribs to ask, “Are you listening to this? These cats are burning the paint right off the walls!”
David Sedaris • Me Talk Pretty One Day
LaserWriter II is a coming-of-age tale set in the legendary 90s indie NYC Mac repair shop TekServe—a voyage back in time to when the internet was new, when New York City was gritty, and when Apple made off-beat computers for weirdos. Our guide is Claire, a 19-year-old who barely speaks to her bohemian co-workers, but knows when it’s time to
... See moreTamara Shopsin • Attention Required! | Cloudflare
A perfect restaurant: linoleum and vinyl and hugging owners and a dusting of feta on all the food. Sometimes the giant windows were open to the street and the smelly sunshine poured in, but usually it was a place to hide from the rain, full of steaming wet coats and intense conversations. I went here with anyone and everyone, or with a book. One gr
... See moreClaire Dederer • Love and Trouble
I imagine, in other words, that the notebook is about other people. But of course it is not. I have no real business with what one stranger said to another at the hatcheck counter in Pavillon; in fact I suspect that the line “That’s my old football number” touched not my own imagination at all, but merely some memory of something once read, probabl
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