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9 failures of the imagination

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A novelist who lives in Brooklyn, NY, asked to record his thoughts on the days following the World Trade Center attacks is creatively stymied.

Author: Lethem, Jonathan
Publisher: The New York Times Company
Publication Name: The New York Times Magazine
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0028-7822
Year: 2001
Psychological aspects, Authors, Writers, Personal narratives, Journalism, Brooklyn, New York, New York

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Let us count the ways (1-9)

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Nine diverse New Yorkers describe their favorite place in the city, including: a semi-rural kids hangout under the George Washington Bridge; a weeping birch tree in Queens; the dog run at Tompkins Square Park; and the pickup basketball scene.

Publisher: The New York Times Company
Publication Name: The New York Times Magazine
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0028-7822
Year: 2001

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Sonuvagun, if It Isn't Dominion: an old Irish neighborhood comes together to grieve for its lost son

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An estimated one in five World Trade Center victims were at least part-Irish - both firefighters going up stairs, and those who worked in the financial markets, escaping down the same stairs. Some of their stories are told.

Author: Dwyer, Jim
Publisher: The New York Times Company
Publication Name: The New York Times Magazine
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0028-7822
Year: 2001
Irish Americans, Meehan, Damian

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Subjects list: Social aspects, United States, Cover Story, New York, War and society, Society, Wars, World Trade Center and Pentagon Attacks, 2001, New York, New York
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