New York Stories

by EDITORS OF NEW YORK MAGAZINEWOLFE, TOM

• ISBN13: 9780812979923
• ISBN10: 0812979923
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2008-09-16
• Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks

Summary

The magazine that is the city that is the world Just in time for its fortieth anniversary,New Yorkmagazine presents a stunning collection of some of its best and most influential articles, stories that captured the spectacle, the turbulence, and the cultural realignments of the past four decades. Covering subjects from "Radical Chic" to Gawker.com, written by some of the country's most renowned authors, here are works that broke news, perfectly captured the moment, or set trends in motion. InNew York Stories, Gloria Steinem (whoseMs. Magazinewas introduced inNew York) broaches the subject of women's liberation; Tom Wolfe coins "The Me Decade"; and Steve Fishman piercingly portrays the unwanted martyrdom of the 9/11 widows. Cutting edge features that invented terms like "brat pack" and "grup"; profiles of defining cultural figures including Joe Namath, Truman Capote, and long-shot presidential candidate Bill Clinton; and reports that inspired the acclaimed moviesSaturday Night Fever, GoodFellas, andGrey Gardensall are included in this one-of-a-kind compilation. The writers who chronicled the times that began with Nixon's campaign and end with Obama's are at their best inNew York Stories. It's an irresistible anthology from a magazine that, like the city itself, is still making stars, setting standards, and going strong.

Author Biography

New York magazine began publishing in 1968.

Tom Wolfe is the author of a dozen books, among them such contemporary classics as The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The Right Stuff, and The Bonfire of the Vanities. A native of Richmond, Virginia, he earned his BA at Washington and Lee University and a PhD in American studies at Yale. He lives in New York City.

Steve Fishman is a contributing writer who has written several of New York magazine's most notable stories.

John Homans served as executive editor of New York magazine for nearly twenty years.

Adam Moss has been New York magazine's editor in chief since 2004.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. xi
Introduction	p. xxxi
Matters of Class
Radical Chic: That Party at Lenny's	p. 3
The Revolt of the White Lower Middle Class	p. 47
Up with Grups	p. 58
How Not to Be Humiliated in Snob Restaurants	p. 74
David and His Twenty-six Roommates	p. 82
The Secret of Grey Gardens	p. 92
The Price of Perfection	p. 110
Everybody Sucks	p. 120
The Rise, the Fall
Namath All Night Long	p. 139
Comedy Isn't Funny	p. 147
Hard to Be Rich	p. 165
Hollywood's Brat Pack	p. 183
The Memory Addict	p. 192
Bess Myerson Is One Tough Customer	p. 206
Unanswered Prayers: The Death and Life of Truman Capote	p. 216
Woody and Me	p. 234
I Run to Win	p. 241
Cultures, Sub- and Otherwise
Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night	p. 255
Night-Shifting for the Hip Fleet	p. 273
The Death of (the Idea of) the Upper East Side	p. 284
One Brief, Scuzzy Moment	p. 297
Critics in the World of the Rising Souffle (or Is It the Rising Meringue?)	p. 307
The Boo Taboo	p. 321
If You've Been Afraid to Go to Elaine's These Past Twenty Years, Here's What You've Missed	p. 331
How to Do a Real Crossword Puzzle	p. 336
The Dead Wives Club, or Char in Love	p. 346
The Permanent Revolution
After Black Power, Women's Liberation	p. 367
Race: The Issue	p. 374
Female Chauvinist Pigs	p. 388
Say Everything	p. 400
Swapping	p. 416
My Breast: One Woman's Cancer Story	p. 418
The "Me" Decade	p. 434
Criminal Acts
The Crack in the Shield	p. 459
The Headmistress and the Diet Doctor	p. 477
The $2,000-an-Hour Woman	p. 491
Wiseguy	p. 510
Sid Vicious and Nauseating Nancy: A Love Story	p. 522
The National Interest
In Your Heart, You Know He's Nixon	p. 535
Wallace Agonistes	p. 536
The Luck of Spiro Agnew	p. 540
Jerry Ford and His Flying Circus: A Presidential Diary	p. 543
Bill Clinton: Who Is This Guy?	p. 549
Oh, the Humility	p. 551
The Meme Prisoner	p. 555
Is John McCain Bob Dole?	p. 559
Dreaming of Obama	p. 562
Acknowledgments	p. 567
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