New York Stories: Landmark Writing from Four Decades of New York MagazineThe magazine that is the city that is the world Just in time for its fortieth anniversary, New York magazine presents a stunning collection of some of its best and most influential articles, stories that captured the spectacle, the turbulence, and the cultural realignments of the past four decades. Covering subjects from “Radical Chic” to Gawker.com, written by some of the country’s most renowned authors, here are works that broke news, perfectly captured the moment, or set trends in motion. In New York Stories, Gloria Steinem (whose Ms. Magazine was introduced in New York) broaches the subject of women’s liberation; Tom Wolfe coins “The Me Decade”; and Steve Fishman piercingly portrays the unwanted martyrdom of the 9/11 widows. Cutting edge features that invented terms like “brat pack” and “grup”; profiles of defining cultural figures including Joe Namath, Truman Capote, and long-shot presidential candidate Bill Clinton; and reports that inspired the acclaimed movies Saturday Night Fever, GoodFellas, and Grey Gardens–all are included in this one-of-a-kind compilation. The writers who chronicled the times that began with Nixon’s campaign and end with Obama’s are at their best in New York Stories. It’s an irresistible anthology from a magazine that, like the city itself, is still making stars, setting standards, and going strong. |
Contents
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PETE HAMILL The Revolt of the White Lower Middle Class | 47 |
ADAM STERNBERGH Up with Grups | 58 |
GAEL GREENE How Not to Be Humiliated | 74 |
DEBBIE NATHAN David and His Twentysix Roommates | 82 |
GAIL SHEEHY The Secret of Grey Gardens | 92 |
MICHAEL WOLFF The Price of Perfection | 110 |
VANESSA GRIGORIADIS Everybody Sucks | 120 |
NORA EPHRON Critics in the World of the Rising Soufflé | 307 |
JOHN SIMON The Boo Taboo | 321 |
GEORGE PLIMPTON If Youve Been Afraid to Go | 331 |
STEVE FISHMAN The Dead Wives Club or Char in Love | 346 |
GLORIA STEINEM After Black Power Womens Liberation | 367 |
The Issue | 374 |
ARIEL LEVY Female Chauvinist Pigs | 388 |
EMILY NUSSBAUM Say Everything | 400 |
JIMMY BRESLIN Namath All Night Long | 139 |
CHRIS SMITH Comedy Isnt Funny | 147 |
JOHN TAYLOR Hard to Be Rich | 165 |
DAVID BLUM Hollywoods Brat Pack | 183 |
SAM ANDERSON The Memory Addict | 192 |
SUSAN BERMAN Bess Myerson Is One Tough Customer | 206 |
The Death | 216 |
NANCY JO SALES Woody and Me | 234 |
JIMMY BRESLIN I Run to Win | 241 |
PART THREE CULTURES SUB AND OTHERWISE | 253 |
MARK JACOBSON NightShifting for the Hip Fleet | 273 |
JAY MCINERNEY The Death of the Idea | 284 |
GARY INDIANA One Brief Scuzzy Moment | 297 |
JUDITH VIORST Swapping | 416 |
TOM WOLFE The Me Decade | 434 |
MICHAEL DALY The Crack in the Shield | 459 |
ANTHONY HADENGUEST The Headmistress and | 477 |
MARK JACOBSON The 2000anHour Woman | 491 |
NICHOLAS PILEGGI Wiseguy | 510 |
THE NATIONAL INTEREST | 531 |
DAVID HALBERSTAM The Luck of Spiro Agnew | 540 |
Who Is This Guy? | 549 |
JOHN HEILEMANN The Meme Prisoner | 555 |
JENNIFER SENIOR Dreaming of Obama | 562 |
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