I Love NY

[Henry Musikar]

Pynchon may be from Glen Cove, and has lived in NYC for a while now, but
he's still a visitor from warmer climes.  Is this because of his
particularly WASP and peculiarly non-public experience?  His NY theater
section in ATD was through the eyes of a girl from the mid-west.  On the
other hand, Philip Roth who, though from across the river, apparently loved
and courted New York, but left "the city" for greener fields, like me, but
still has always has been and will remain, like me, a New Yorker:

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/18/the-mayor-and-the-philip-roth-q
uote/ 
"The upheaval of New York had taken little more than a week. There is no
more worldly in-the-world place than New York, full of all those people on
their cellphones going to restaurants, having affairs, getting jobs, reading
the news, being consumed with political emotion, and I'd thought to come
back in from where I'd been, to resume residence there reembodied, to take
on all the things I'd decided to relinquish - love, desire, quarrels,
professional conflict, the whole messy legacy of the past - and instead, as
in a speeded-up old movie, I passed through for the briefest moment, only to
pull out to come back here."
http://tinyurl.com/exit-ghost 

Is OBA's not having written a book set in the era in which it is written
because they take to long to write to ever be current, or perhaps due to not
being fully engaged with the tumultuous surroundings of the city that he has
chosen as his home?

Henry Mu
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