Welcome to Litsy!

A love letter to New York. The city where Gornick was born and has lived her entire life.

A look at her friendships and her relationships

A look at authors like Dickens and Hugo and unknown ones like Charles Reznikoff, Mary B. Miller, and how they view the city.

The memoir is told in vignettes, and I loved it.

When the library opens again I‘ll read her first memoir.

#BookReport

📚 I‘ve read a chapter a day in HP for #PotterADay
📚 I‘ve read some poems
📚 Everything else finished

🎧 Continue the forth Department Q book

So I‘ve read everything I wanted to read this week, and there‘s still many hours left of Saturday 😊
I‘ll go out for a walk now listening to my audio and when I get back, I‘ll decide what I pick up next

Starting this, and I must confess that it was the cover that got my attention first. There‘s just something about this cover that I love

#WeeklyForcast

Since I‘ll be spending a lot more time at home in the foreseeable future, I thought I should read some literature I don‘t normally read

📚 I‘ll join in on #PotterADay for the fourth book. I‘ve been wanting to read the illustrated edition since it was published
📚 read a poem or two a day
📚 read a nonfiction and a short story collection
📚 finish Disappearing Earth an start the tagged

🎧 continue the fourth Department Q book

Riding my NYC book kick. This memoir was a series of short remembrances.

Exactly!

#rockinmay #newyorkminute
I love Vivian Gornick!Native New Yorker ,memoirist,feminist, essayist, I enjoy everything she writes.Odd woman so beguiling ,in that sometimes city life can be a solitary life , yet you are connected to the randomness of New York and interconnected to your fellow New Yorkers in odd ways you might not imagine.Her interests far ranging ,I wish I could meet her for coffee and see where the conversation takes us

This is a book about cities, walking, friendship, mothers, literature, and more. What's not to like? #recommendsday

'What independence has come to mean to me: The pain of solitude. The pleasure of self-knowledge." - Vivian Gornick.

Sadly this is DNF. I was excited and caught up at the beginning as Gornick discussed her friendship with Leonard. But then the snippets of street conversation just lost me. I didn't care enough to continue.