New Yorkers, Craig Taylor
New Yorkers, Craig Taylor
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New Yorkers
A City and It's People in Our Time

Author: Craig Taylor

Narrator: Catherine Ho, Richard Poe, Luis Moreno, Andrea Gallo, Michael Braun, Ron Butler, Nick Mills, Maria Liatis, Karen Chilton, Samara Naeymi

Unabridged: 14 hr 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 03/23/2021


Synopsis

A symphony of contemporary New York through the magnificent words of its people—from the best-selling author of Londoners.

In the first twenty years of the twenty-first century, New York City has been convulsed by terrorist attack, blackout, hurricane, recession, social injustice, and pandemic. New Yorkers weaves the voices
of some of the city’s best talkers into an indelible portrait of New York in our time—and a powerful hymn to the vitality and resilience of its people.

Best-selling author Craig Taylor has been hailed as “a peerless journalist and a beautiful craftsman” (David Rakoff), acclaimed for the way he “fuses the mundane truth of conversation with the higher
truth of art” (Michel Faber). In the wake of his celebrated book Londoners, Taylor moved to New York and spent years meeting regularly with hundreds of New Yorkers as diverse as the city itself. New
Yorkers features 75 of the most remarkable of them, their fascinating true tales arranged in thematic sections that follow Taylor’s growing engagement with the city.

Here are the uncelebrated people who propel New York each day—bodega cashier, hospital nurse, elevator repairman, emergency dispatcher. Here are those who wire the lights at the top of the Empire
State Building, clean the windows of Rockefeller Center, and keep the subway running. Here are people whose experiences reflect the city’s fractured realities: the mother of a Latino teenager jailed
at Rikers, a BLM activist in the wake of police shootings. And here are those who capture the ineffable feeling of New York, such as a balloon handler in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade or a security guard at the Statue of Liberty.

Vibrant and bursting with life, New Yorkers explores the nonstop hustle to make it; the pressures on new immigrants, people of color, and the poor; the constant battle between loving the city and
wanting to leave it; and the question of who gets to be considered a "New Yorker." It captures the strength of an irrepressible city that—no matter what it goes through—dares call itself the greatest in the world.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bee

As dizzying a spectacle as the city itself, Craig Taylor’s NEW YORKERS is a fixed record of the fleeting present, a curated selection of those numberless “stories in the Big City”. If you’ve scrolled through Humans of New York, you’ll relish the chance to get beyond the photos. Some stories stand me......more

Goodreads review by Ola

Nie ma skali, by opisać jej doskonałość.......more

Goodreads review by Jill

4.5 I just honestly enjoyed reading every page of this book.......more

Goodreads review by Pedro

I have lived in New York for about 2.5 years now. I feel like I know a bit of the city and some of its people, but what I call my community is a very specific circle, with shared experiences, interests and outlook on the world, and it’s sometimes easy to forget that the world is so much wider than y......more