Goodbye to All That by Sari Botton

Goodbye to All That by Sari Botton

Winner of a Foreword IndieFab Book of the Year Award In 1967, Joan Didion wrote an essay called Goodbye to All That , a work of such candid and penetrating prose that it soon became the gold standard for personal essays. Like no other story before it, Didion's tale of loving and leaving New York captured the mesmerizing allure Manhattan has always had for writers, poets, and wandering spirits.In this captivating collection, 28 writers take up Didion's literary legacy by sharing their own New York stories. Their essays often begin as love stories do, with the passion of something newly discovered,the crush of subway crowds, the streets filled with manic energy, and the certainty that this is the only place on Earth where one can become exactly who she is meant to be.They also share the grief that comes when the metropolis loses its magic and the pressures of New York's frenetic life wear thin on even the most fervent dwellers. As friends move away, rents soar, and love,still, remains just out of reach, each writer's goodbye to New York is singular and universal, like New York itself. With Cheryl Strayed, Dani Shapiro, Emma Straub, Ann Hood, and more.

"Charming.. New York's pull is evident throughout." --The New York Times "The hip, witty, and sometimes heartbreaking essays in Goodbye to All That get to the bottom of most Big Apple miseries: big dreams cost big bucks to maintain. As many of these writers figured out, sometimes losing New York City is the only way to regain your credit rating, rent-stabilized living spaces, and sanity. From candid to kooky to classic, this collection sheds the love, light, and lyricism the gritty city deserves." --Susan Shapiro, author of Speed Shrinking and Five Men Who Broke My Heart "New York City is like a lover who left you for the slightly younger, prettier girl: you can smell him, taste him, yearn to have him back in your life. All the stories in this collection recall that lover and his many faults, and then make you forget them, all over again." --Martha Frankel, author of Hats & Eyeglasses and executive director of the Woodstock Writers Festival "Of course it would take more than one woman to capture the mythic, ever-shifting, exhilarating, and disappointing beast that is New York. The chorus of voices that is Goodbye to All That sings the city--both of the pavement and of the mind--to life, over and over." --Nick Flynn, author of Another Bullshit Night in Suck City

Sari Botton is the editor of Never Can Say Goodbye: Writers on Loving and Leaving New York, as well as a writer whose work has appeared in publications such as The New York Times, New York Magazine, The Sun, The Village Voice, Harper's Bazaar, More, Marie Claire, and others. She is the editorial director of the TMI Project (TMIProject.org), a nonprofit that offers memoir and true storytelling workshops in jails, shelters, veterans' hospitals, cancer wards, schools, and other locations where individuals don't often get the chance to tell their stories or be heard. Botton still carries a MetroCard in her wallet, despite living in upstate New York. Elizabeth Gilbert, Susan Orlean, Rosanne Cash, Phillip Lopate, Nick Flynn, Adelle Waldman, Colin Harrison, Owen King, Amy Sohn, Patricia Engel, Elliott Kalan, Jenna Wortham, Adam Sternbergh, Anna Holmes, Starlee Kine, Rachel Syme, Stephen Elliott, Julie Klam, Kathleen Hale, Isaac Fitzgerald, Alexander Chee, Porochista Khakpour, Maris Kreitzman, Jason Diamond, Brian Macaluso, and Jesse Diamond contributed

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ISBN 13	9781580054942
ISBN 10	1580054943
Title	Goodbye to All That
Author	Sari Botton
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Seal Press
Year published	2013-10-08
Number of pages	288
Prizes	Commended for IndieFab awards (Anthologies) 2013
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.