
“You start building your private New York the first time you lay eyes on it. Maybe you were in a cab leaving the airport when the skyline first roused itself into view. All your worldly possessions were in the trunk, and in your hand you held an address on a piece of paper. Look: there's the Empire State Building, over there are the twin towers. Somewhere in that fantastic, glorious mess was the address on the piece of paper, your first home here. — Colson Whitehead, “Lost and Found”
Podcasts of this, and past episodes are available here. Pan Am building image courtesy of the Bowery Boys.
2 comments:
Absolutely brilliant - thanks for posting this!
Glad you got to it. I agree...It really blew my mind, and I have to say I'm a bit disappointed by the almost non-existent reaction to it.
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