Table of Contents
Excerpt from Jazz / Toni Morrison -- Change / Frank Conroy -- Leaving New York and Staying / Kathleen Norris -- Jewish Geography / Leslie Brody -- The things we do for love / Mona Simpson -- Farewell / Willie Morris -- A village life / Derek Walcott -- 3 a.m. in New York / Jean Valentine -- Heartbeat / Lucie Brock-Broido -- Une Lettre a New York / Henri Cole -- The city in which I love you / Li-Young Lee -- A phonecall from Frank O'Hara / Anne Waldman -- Sometimes you talk about Idaho / Pam Houston -- A house on the heights / Truman Capote -- Accumulation / John Updike -- Putting myself together / Jamaica Kincaid -- The American scene / Henry James -- My lost city / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Apology for breathing / A.J. Liebling -- Stalking the billion-footed beast / Tom Wolfe -- The return of the native / Harold Brodkey -- Canary / Rita Dove -- Autumn in New York / Vernon Duke -- Excerpt from The same river twice / Chris Offutt -- Talking New York / Bob Dylan -- Hard times in New York town / Bob Dylan -- Goodbye to all that / Joan Didion -- Do you miss New York / David Frishberg -- Elsewhere in the empire / Bill McKibben -- Courage of turtles / Edward Hoagland -- Water songs / Terry Tempest Williams -- Times square water music / Amy Clampitt -- Greetings in New York City / James Wright.