Fwd: NP: "Chronic City"

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From: malignd at aol.com
To: richard.romeo at gmail.com
Sent: Wed, Jun 24, 2009 6:17 pm
Subject: Re: NP: "Chronic City"






I'm fond of the outer boroughs too and I certainly understand your
sentiments, but as someone ?? said, it isn't necessarily either/or.
I've been there forever and Manhattan's ability to delight with variety
has never aged.  Two weeks ago I was working in the financial district,
then took the IND up to thirty-fourth to meet my wife, who was
auditioning actors in a rehearsal studio on Eighth Ave.  A trip of
eight minutes and everything was different -- the people, the pace, the
architecture, the ambience -- and not at all a frat town of society
people (although another ten minutes and there they would be). 

manhattan is boring--its a frat town with society people, nothing more 
 

the boros are alot more interesting and untapped beyond the park 

slope, brooklyn heights ex-manhattanite jerk offs 
 

sorry, i was born in brooklyn and i'm a bit peeved by what nyc has
become 
 


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From: rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> 

To: Kevin Dunn <kevindunn27 at gmail.com> 

Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org 

Sent: Tue, Jun 23, 2009 11:27 am 

Subject: Re: NP: "Chronic City" 
 

 

 


manhattan is boring--its a frat town with society people, nothing more 

 

the boros are alot more interesting and untapped beyond the park 

slope, brooklyn heights ex-manhattanite jerk offs 
 

sorry, i was born in brooklyn and i'm a bit peeved by what nyc has
become 
 

On 6/23/09, Kevin Dunn <kevindunn27 at gmail.com> wrote: 

> Anyone here a Lethem fan? I got my hands on an advance copy of his 
new 

> novel "Chronic City," and, though I'm not that far into it, I can say 

> it's already turning out to be his best. I has the most meaning for 

> those living in, or this who haves lived, in Manhattan, as the novels 

> uses that local as part if it's conceit. 

> 

>   "We faced one another, mid-Wednesday Manhattan throngs islanding us 

> in their stream." (pg. 5) 

> 

> "To live in Manhattan is to be persistently amazed at the worlds 

> squirreled inside one another, the chaotic intricacy with which 
realms 

> interleave, like those lines of television cable and fresh water and 

> steam heat and outgoing sewage and telephone wire abd whatever else 

> which cohabit in the same intestinal holes that pavement-demolishing 

> workmen periodically wrench open to the daylight and to our passing, 

> disturbed glances" (pg.7) 

> 

> What Manhattanite does not relate? 

> 

> K 

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