For writers, there is no escaping the city. At various stages in life, our innermost narratives are formed by the shape of its streets, just as its collective history is a central character in the daily news. We write and read the city, from the grand urban epics to the ads on the subway, to the keyboard from which we seek to describe it, and again in the views we take in when looking away from our screens.
Chapter 90: Writing the Impossible City
Chapter 90: Writing the Impossible City
Chapter 90: Writing the Impossible City
For writers, there is no escaping the city. At various stages in life, our innermost narratives are formed by the shape of its streets, just as its collective history is a central character in the daily news. We write and read the city, from the grand urban epics to the ads on the subway, to the keyboard from which we seek to describe it, and again in the views we take in when looking away from our screens.