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Couric was interviewing Nicole Contos, 27, a Manhattan kindergarten teacher who was to have got married to a 35-year-old lawyer, Tasos Michael. Bills for the wedding, to be paid by Nicole's father, a businessman who owns the American Banana Co., were said to be running as high...
...loved ones--without pretense, and simply lets the reader live their experience. "I do not want to rush," he continues. "The hierarchy of suffering sets in too soon. What starts as your own self-armoring way of surviving can soon (especially in New York City) become The New Careerism. Manhattan Person A says: 'I've lost most of my friends to it.' Manhattan Person B: 'Only "most"? Lucky you. For me it's total. Twenty years in one neighborhood and, suddenly, we're talking Stranger in a Strange Land. For me, unlike you, a total rout--sorry...
Hartley meets composer Robert Christian Gustafson in an elevator after a dismal job interview and falls instantly in love with him. Star-struck Hartley sees him as one of the city's "miraculous" people who can walk down any street in Manhattan and greet by name the street-cleaner, the woman at the corner grocery store and any number of vaguely familiar people in limousines. "I've been in New York for five whole years, going on a century," he explains. New York evidently also knows him: with silver eyelashes and gorgeous Nordic hair, Robert is New York's "Prettiest...
...presents the narrative through the eyes of a displaced Southerner with an eye for rural detail, Gurganus is able to display his virtuosity in writing about nature, from the smell of soil in Central Park to the silver glitter of the Hudson River through the grimy windows of a Manhattan apartment building...
Another standout is Carolyn Cooke's "Bob Darling." The story details the strained relationship that develops between the dying title character and an alternately vacant and moody Manhattan woman. The growing distance between Darling and Carla is comically captured in a lengthy argument about the differences between naked and nude...