| Description |
353 pages |
| Contents |
Foreword: Running toward the bombs / Kevin Cullen -- Walking an American avenue / Mike Barnicle -- Pride or prejudice / Andrø Aciman -- The former legends / E. M. Swift -- A boy's Boston / Charles McGrath -- Things in threes / Madeleine Blais -- Getting over Boston / George Howe Colt -- Accents, or the missing r / Susan Orlean -- Bonfire of the memories / David M. Shribman -- A city not on a hill / Joan Wickersham -- Our chowder / David Michaelis -- Boston, 1972 / Katherine A. Powers -- Transplants / Jabari Asim -- Diamonds (and dugouts) are a girl's best friend / Lesley Visser -- Next step: Back Bay / Hugh Delehanty -- Medora goes to the game / George Plimpton -- The everything bagel / Leslie Epstein -- Wounded, Boston's heart remains strong / Bud Collins -- So you want to be in pictures / Nell Scovell -- America's brain / Israel Horovitz -- Front row on the Charles / Shira Springer -- Messing with the wrong city / Dennis Lehane -- Boston a la carte / Susan Sheehan -- Our Boston and theirs / James Atlas -- Bothering Bill Russell / Leigh Montville -- From somewhere / Tova Mirvis -- Boston marriage / Pagan Kennedy -- Reading around Boston / Scott Stossel -- Souvenir of the ancient world / Robert Pinsky -- Boston sports: something for everyone to love...and complain about / Bill Littlefield -- The landscape of home / Carlo Rotella -- Thinking locally, acting globally / Neil Swidey -- Jamaica Pond: my Walden / Jessica Shattuck -- Hub fans bid kid adieu / John Updike -- The classroom of the real / Pico Iyer -- This is the way I point my view / Sally Taylor. |
| Subject |
Boston (Mass.) -- Literary collections.
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American literature -- 21st century.
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| Added Author |
Blauner, Andrew.
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| ISBN |
9780544263802 |
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0544263804 |
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