To commemorate this Fiftieth Anniversary
of Jane Jacobs' magnum opus, Tom LeClair asks:
"If New York remains a Great American City, and is the center of publishing, and is the home of many of our most celebrated fiction writers, why haven't we had in, say, the last decade, a Great New York Novel?"Jane Jacobs' had a nemesis: Robert Moses. It was Moses who triggered the decline of New York City over the next several decades.
New York City today is just an illusory cluster of facades and facsimiles. The publishing industry is owned by foreign business interests. It's a very sad story. [essay]
# The FBI unveils The Vault,
their new electronic reading room.
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