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Never Can Say Goodbye: Writers on Their Unshakable Love for New York by Sari Botton

3.0

Totally hit or miss. Few essays were great and touching and some were obnoxious and stupid. I wish the collection was more diverse. It was lacking in that area.

List of Essays:
New York, in the Mirror - Rosanne Cash
Stay Hungry - Jason Diamond
New York and the Night - Patricia Engel
To Live and Die in New York - Phillip lopate
The Goodbye Girl - Anna Holmes
A Guy Named Wade - Jon-Jon Goulian
The City Hoarded - Colin Harrison
All I Really Need to Know I Learned in New York City - Whoopi Goldberg
New York Three Times - Alexander Chee
The Muse of the Coyote Ugly Saloon - Elizabeth Gilbert
City of Tongues - Jenna Wortham
But Why Did You Move Here - Stephen Elliot
Manhattan - Julie Klam
Royalty - Susan Orlean
Me Love Brooklyn - Adam Sternbergh
New York Cool - Sari Botton
The Shivtz at the End of the World - Brian Macaluso
Quit Everything - Kathleen Hale
City of Mundane Fantasy - Elliot Kalan
SF > NYC Issac Fitzgerald
Publishing a like Story - Mary Kreizman
ESB - Rachel Syme
The Studied Knowledgeability of The Native New Yorker - Amy Sohn
Hot Time in the Old Town - Owen King
Conversions: Coming of Identity in Late Nineties New York - Porochista Khakpour
Brooklyn and Me - Adelle Waldman
The Replacements - Nick Flynn