Bright lights, abandoned city
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Bright lights, abandoned city
Americans are no longer moving to their shining cultural capital
Joan Didion wrote that New York is a city only for the very rich, the very poor and the very young. That was in her cult classic 1967 essay ‘Goodbye To All That’, in which she created the farewell-to-New York genre. It’s a quote I carried with me through my twenties, from one grim apartment to the next, each smaller, fa…
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