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Preface ix
1 My Sixties 2
2 Farewell, Avenue C 20
3 The Forest in Grand Central Station 46
4 Crossing into Poland 60
5 Lost Lustre 78
6 The Hotel 17 Revisited 150
7 Bringing Up Baby 178
8 On Chasing After One's Hat 190
9 A Manhattan Barbarian on the Amazon 208
10 I and the Village 226
Sources 236
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Noel Ch
reviewed Lost Lustre: A New York Memoir on September 11, 2010
Lost Lustre: A New York Memoir
Kind of a chore to get through this. The first chapter is a drawn out ode to the sixties that shot my enthusiasm for this book in the foot. The next chapter describes a long-gone New York City, and that was enjoyable, though I'll admit to being a bit of a New York-aphile. There are chapters about old friends and long lost loves that have their moments, but overall the book can't seem to shake off the weight of the author's weird mix of self-pity, solipsism and nostalgia.
Thinking perhaps it was just a case of not being in the target demographic, I passed the book to my mom. Her review was also mixed.
I really wanted to root for Karlen to pull out a win, but the guy's a lawyer in real life. His writing style leaves much to be desired and gives the impression that this memoir was just an attempt to exorcise his multitude of old ghosts.
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