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Foreword Tom Wolfe xi
Introduction xxxi
Matters of Class
Radical Chic: That Party at Lenny's Tom Wolfe 3
The Revolt of the White Lower Middle Class Pete Hamill 47
Up with Grups Adam Sternbergh 58
How Not to Be Humiliated in Snob Restaurants Gael Greene 74
David and His Twenty-six Roommates Debbie Nathan 82
The Secret of Grey Gardens Gail Sheehy 92
The Price of Perfection Michael Wolff 110
Everybody Sucks Vanessa Grigoriadis 120
The Rise, the Fall
Namath All Night Long Jimmy Breslin 139
Comedy Isn't Funny Chris Smith 147
Hard to Be Rich John Taylor 165
Hollywood's Brat Pack David Blum 183
The Memory Addict Sam Anderson 192
Bess Myerson Is One Tough Customer Susan Berman 206
Unanswered Prayers: The Death and Life of Truman Capote Julie Baumgold 216
Woody and Me Nancy Jo Sales 234
I Run to Win Jimmy Breslin 241
Cultures, Sub- and Otherwise
Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night Nik Cohn 255
Night-Shifting for the Hip Fleet Mark Jacobson 273
The Death of (the Idea of) the Upper East Side Jay McInerney 284
One Brief, Scuzzy Moment Gary Indiana 297
Critics in the World of the Rising Souffle (or Is It the Rising Meringue?) Nora Ephron 307
The Boo Taboo John Simon 321
If You've Been Afraid to Go to Elaine's These Past Twenty Years, Here's What You've Missed George Plimpton 331
How to Do a Real Crossword Puzzle Stephen Sondheim 336
The Dead Wives Club, or Char in Love Steve Fishman 346
The Permanent Revolution
After Black Power, Women's Liberation Gloria Steinem 367
Race: The Issue Joe Klein 374
Female Chauvinist Pigs Ariel Levy 388
Say Everything Emily Nussbaum 400
Swapping Judith Viorst 416
My Breast: One Woman's Cancer Story Joyce Wadler 418
The "Me" Decade Tom Wolfe 434
Criminal Acts
The Crack in the Shield Michael Daly 459
The Headmistress and the Diet Doctor Anthony Haden-Guest 477
The {dollar}2,000-an-Hour Woman Mark Jacobson 491
Wiseguy Nicholas Pileggi 510
Sid Vicious and Nauseating Nancy: A Love Story Ron Rosenbaum 522
The National Interest
In Your Heart, You Know He's Nixon Gloria Steinem 535
Wallace Agonistes Garry Wills 536
The Luck of Spiro Agnew David Halberstam 540
Jerry Ford and His Flying Circus: A Presidential Diary Richard Reeves 543
Bill Clinton: Who Is This Guy? Joe Klein 549
Oh, the Humility Kurt Andersen 551
The Meme Prisoner John Heilemann 555
Is John McCain Bob Dole? John Heilemann 559
Dreaming of Obama Jennifer Senior 562
Acknowledgments 567
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Mikee Pablo
reviewed New York Stories: The Best Writing from Four Decades of New York Magazine on May 23, 2017
New York Stories
The anointed star of this anthology of magazine articles is Tom Wolfe. Which is a shame: His foreword is a self-referential affair full of Wolfe's flabby "new journalism" tics and affectations, and his two pieces ' on dining with the Black Panthers at Leonard Bernstein's Upper East Side apartment and on the "me" generation of the '70s ' aren't much better.
But don't let that deter you. This is a superb collection. Pete Hamill's essay on the angry white working class is eerily prescient and could have appeared today, while Jimmy Breslin's profile of young, swinging Joe Namath in late '60s New York feels, oddly, undated. There's Joyce Wadler's moving essay on her breast cancer diagnosis; Ariel Levy's funny and biting "Female Chauvinist Pigs," and Debbie Nathan's astonishing piece on the lives of illegal immigrant migrants living cheek by jowl in a Washington Heights tenement. There are also the articles, like Nik Cohn's "Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night" and Nicholas Pileggi's "Wiseguy," which found wider cultural resonance as the films "Saturday Night Fever" and "Goodfellas," respectively.
Not everything here is a winner. A Stephen Sondheim piece on crossword puzzles is tedious, and I couldn't get through a Nora Ephron essay on Manhattan's proto-foodies. But this is the rare anthology that a reader can indulge in without picking and choosing. It also shows that the issues of New York and the issues of the United States as a whole are more closely related than commonly thought. It just takes a good writer to make the connection. But maybe not Tom Wolfe.
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