Stemming from Joan Didion's seminal essay Goodbye To All That
, essays about leaving New York have become their own genre.
And now here is a whole book of them, Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving New York
an anthology edited by Sari Botton, containing essays by 28 of New York's former, current, and returned writers, who rhapsodize about their love for the city, and lament or celebrate leaving.
, essays about leaving New York have become their own genre.And now here is a whole book of them, Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving New York
an anthology edited by Sari Botton, containing essays by 28 of New York's former, current, and returned writers, who rhapsodize about their love for the city, and lament or celebrate leaving.
And if you've never read Didion's essay you must, it set the standard for personal essay writing. You can find it in Slouching Towards Bethlehem:
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