Reviews
"Captures stalwart New Yorkers' love/hate relationship with the world's most seductively dysfunctional town. There may be no better read to pass your wait for that next damned G train." -- Will Hermes, author of Love Goes To Buildings On Fire, " Gets right to the heart of what it feels like to be a New Yorker--slightly insane, broke, and madly in love. These essays made me laugh out loud with recognition. New York City isn't an easy place to live, but is anything easy really worth doing?" -- Emma Straub, author of The Vacationers, "[These essays] celebrate life in New York City in that quintessentially New York way. They kvetch as much as they kvell. They lament the indignities even as they lionize the perks. With humor, candor, and often deep soulfulness, these writers capture the maddening, intoxicating promise that New Yorkers make to themselves every day: the promise that, despite the exasperation and exhaustion, it's worth it." - Meghan Daum, author of My Misspent Youth and The Unspeakable, " Gets right to the heart of what it feels like to be a New Yorker--slightly insane, broke, and madly in love. These essays made me laugh out loud with recognition. New York City isn't an easy place to live, but is anything easy really worth doing?" - Emma Straub, author of The Vacationers, "These essays are a happy reminder of the eternal truths about New York: it smells like chicken innards; it's ripe for apocalypse; it's overpriced; it has more free stuff than anywhere else; it's dirty; it's too clean; it is the guy behind you on the subway pressing his erection into your leg; it blows doors on L.A. New York is over. Long live New York!" - Nathaniel Rich, author of Odds Against Tomorrow, "Never Can Say Goodbye is sharp, moving, often funny, and sometimes heartbreaking. A wonderful collection of love letters to a sublime and maddening city."- Emily St. John Mandel, author of Station Eleven, "Never Can Say Goodbye is sharp, moving, often funny, and sometimes heartbreaking. A wonderful collection of love letters to a sublime and maddening city."-- Emily St. John Mandel, author of Station Eleven, Never Can Say Goodbye is sharp, moving, often funny, and sometimes heartbreaking. A wonderful collection of love letters to a sublime and maddening city., "Extremely addictive, this anthology is the perfect subway read-or the perfect book to read while imagining reading on the subway."- Library Journal, " Never Can Say Goodbye is sharp, moving, often funny, and sometimes heartbreaking. A wonderful collection of love letters to a sublime and maddening city." - Emily St. John Mandel, author of The Lola Quartet, "Extremely addictive, this anthology is the perfect subway read--or the perfect book to read while imagining reading on the subway."-- Library Journal, A collection of personal musings that evince a devotion to New York even as the writers reflect on the reality of being a New Yorker.", "Captures stalwart New Yorkers' love/hate relationship with the world's most seductively dysfunctional town. There may be no better read to pass your wait for that next damned G train." - Will Hermes, author of Love Goes To Buildings On Fire, "These essays are a happy reminder of the eternal truths about New York: it smells like chicken innards; it's ripe for apocalypse; it's overpriced; it has more free stuff than anywhere else; it's dirty; it's too clean; it is the guy behind you on the subway pressing his erection into your leg; it blows doors on L.A. New York is over. Long live New York!" -- Nathaniel Rich, author of Odds Against Tomorrow, "[These essays] celebrate life in New York City in that quintessentially New York way. They kvetch as much as they kvell. They lament the indignities even as they lionize the perks. With humor, candor, and often deep soulfulness, these writers capture the maddening, intoxicating promise that New Yorkers make to themselves every day: the promise that, despite the exasperation and exhaustion, it's worth it." -- Meghan Daum, author of My Misspent Youth and The Unspeakable
