Quotes by Michael Chabon about City

6 quotes by Michael Chabon about city

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Dali kept coming up in my research. I was reading a lot of The New Yorker magazines from that time, week after week after week of incredibly detailed snapshots of the city from each year that I was writing about.

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Dali worked his way into the book because he seemed to...

Dali worked his way into the book because he seemed to have worked his way into New York City during those years.

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It was a little scary because a similar thing had happened with Fountain City, the failed novel, all sorts of disparate themes running together; in that book I trusted my instincts but it didn't work. I couldn't get it to hang together.

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It was an incredible resource. I'd sit with a big stack of bound New Yorkers in the library and read through, especially the 'Talk of the Town' sections.

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My agent lived in New York for over twenty years and like most people who are adopted New Yorkers she's very passionate about the city. Also, she has a particular interest in this period, especially of golden age Hollywood films.

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The 'Talk of the Town' was really that in the 1940s: it...

The 'Talk of the Town' was really that in the 1940s: it was all about New York, it was only about New York, and it was about people.

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