#new york

What had brought me to New York in the autumn of 1972 was a letter of recommendation written by Norman Mailer, the author of 'The Naked and the Dead' and American literature's leading heavyweight contender, to Dan Wolf, the delphic editor of 'The Village Voice.' ↗

— James Wolcott

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One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years. ↗

— Thomas Wolfe

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