Quotes about City by Michael Chabon

Michael Chabon American Author

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 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 was all about New York, it was only about New York, and it was about people.

Quote by Michael Chabon about city