El. knyga: New Yorkers: A City and Its People in Our Time

"Books about N.Y.C. risk falling into sentimentality and redundancy, but Craig Taylor avoids both with this absorbing oral history, a collective portrait of the citys people (and speech patterns)." -- Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times "A teeming oral history[ This] kaleidoscopic portrait captures the citys thrilling lexical diversity, as well as moments of grace, compassion, cruelty, and racism." -- The New Yorker "[ New Yorkers] is a gift right now, when New York City is coming back from a pandemic winterIn New Yorkers the city is hopping, punching, reeling, dancing, thrumming, honking, thrivingTaylor's presence is felt between the lines; he is as skilled a writer of literary nonfiction as I have ever read." -- Mary Norris, Times Literary Supplement (UK) "Thankfully, New Yorkers is not War and Peace, with its several hundred characters. Taylor culled and cut a lot. But among those who made it into New Yorkers, some are unforgettableTaylor finds stories in the people who navigate the streets." -- James Barron, New York Times Book Review "The people are the texture of New Yorkand there are 75 of them in New Yorkers, speaking in their own voices of their own experiences. Taylor is Canadian, an outsider: his love of New York is plain, his ability to listen extraordinary." -- Erica Wagner, New Statesman "Jaw-droppingenthrallingStart spreading the news: Taylors book is a stunning work of modern social history." -- Independent (UK) "Ambitious and entertainingMuch of the pleasure of New Yorkers comes from a kind of sly parataxis, the rhetorical trope in which elements are placed side by side, without being overtly connected together." -- Hari Kunzru, The Guardian "A beautifully woven tapestry." -- Sunday Times (UK) "A fine and fearless follow-up to Londonersfine because its so thoughtful and revealing, fearless because the authors method is to engage strangers in conversation that quickly becomes oral historyA compelling portrait of New York and a must-read for residents and visitors alike." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "An engrossing, multihued oral portrait of New York City as told by the people who live thereExpertly edited and arranged, these striking snapshots make clear that in New York, the people are the texture. Admirers of the Big Apple will be enthralled." -- Publishers Weekly "A monumental and beautiful testimony to a city and to life itself. Joseph Mitchell, one of the great chroniclers of New York and whose work Taylor wonderfully continues, once profiled an unusual man named Joe Gould who said, more or less, that by overhearing the conversations of New Yorkers you could know the world and all its history. And this is what Craig Taylor has done: not just reveal a city, but the human spirit that lights the city; that spirit, which despite its flaws and madness, seems in the end to always wish to transform chaos and hatred into meaning and love." -- Jonathan Ames, author of The Extra Man "Craig Taylor gets us. His sojourn in New York has resulted in a wonderful portrait of the city and its people, in good times and in bad, living, persevering, triumphant." -- Kevin Baker, author of The Fall of a Great American City "An incredible achievement. Insightful, funny, surprising, profound, moving and honest. This could be the great American noveland it isnt even a novel." -- Joe Dunthorne, author of Submarine "MonumentalEvery decade or so, a book comes along to define an epoch in New York life: Joe Gould's Secret, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, The Power Broker, Random FamilyCraig Taylors New Yorkers is one of those. For those newly arrived to the city or long in love with it, New Yorkers belongs on the short shelf of required reading." -- Garth Risk Hallberg, author of City on Fire "As gorgeous, cacophonous, and shocking as New York itself. Like those great oral historians Studs Terkel and Ronald Blythe, Craig Taylor has the gift of drawing out the most idiosyncratic confidences, creating a magical, uproarious and sometimes terrifying portrait of life in the ultimate city." -- Olivia Laing, author of Everybody "Craig Taylor has conducted Gothams voices into a gorgeous scoreIve never heard New York sound this good, this in tune, despite its seas of trouble." -- Leanne Shapton, author of Swimming Studies "New York is nothing if not its people, and in New Yorkers Craig Taylor has given us their voiceswary and wise; insistent or sweet; fast and sage and sometimes oblique; impossible, often, to forget. This is a marvelous portrait of the city now, and bound to last." -- Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, co-creator of Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas