NP: "Chronic City"

[Johnny Marr]

I blame Seinfeld. Wait, I blame Woody Allen. Wait, isn't State Island the
place to be? Sorry, Wu-Tang aren't fashionable any more? Wh'appened?

On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 4:27 PM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> >
> >
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
>
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