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Whether we like it or not, books about the rich and powerful always seem to hook us from the start. (“How about Thai fusion?” the younger man suggests, during their first meeting. Grace Paley’s New York is one where resiliency in the city is most tied not to affluence but to a lively curiosity: “All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems,” observes a Paley narrator, “is an interest in life, good, bad, or peculiar.” Inequalities in the political and urban landscape of Paley’s characters are not treated as mere background but as a key component of their reality.

The New Yorker magazine has met this challenge more often and more successfully--and more originally and more surprisingly--than any other modern American journal. What artisanal profession would you pursue? Plus, get a free eBook when you join our mailing list. Baldwin shows this sharply when his characters’ look at cultural institutions such as the Museum of Natural History and the Met. Reread it again yesterday and still love it. Edith Lavery, the daughter of a mildly successful accountant, meets Charles, the heir to an estate—but is she really in love with him, or with all that he offers financially?

But Baldwin moves around in time and space, exploring the lives of several characters in the rural South before they move to New York City. COPYRIGHT © 2020 SIMON & SCHUSTER INC, A CBS COMPANY. When he was starting out as a humor writer and began pitching to The New Yorker, Rich was surprised that his esoteric subjects found an audience. (Even the jacket design, which features a black-and-white photo of a sniffy, white-gloved blonde looking through a pair of binoculars with pursed lips, helps to set the tone of disaffection).

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