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  • Good Riddance to the Goodbye-to-New-York Essay

    Good Riddance to the Goodbye-to-New-York Essay

    Joan Didion’s “Goodbye to All That” has spawned a new literary genre: the personal screed about loving (or leaving) New York City.

  • Weekend Rumpus Roundup

    This weekend, Heather Partington reviews Fridays at Enrico’s, Don Carpenter’s posthumous novel about novelists, and Inside Madeleine, a collection of stories by Paula Bomer that takes an unblinking look at femininity. While the former will strike a familiar chord for…