Our Boston
Subtitle: writers celebrate the city they love
By: edited by Andrew Blauner
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 353
ISBN-13: 9780544263802
Subjects: Literary collections; American literature
Table of contents: title: Foreword. Running toward the bombs / Kevin Cullen; title: Walking an American avenue / Mike Barnicle; title: Pride or prejudice / Andrø Aciman; title: The former legends / E. M. Swift; title: A boy's Boston / Charles McGrath; title: Things in threes / Madeleine Blais; title: Getting over Boston / George Howe Colt; title: Accents, or the missing r / Susan Orlean; title: Bonfire of the memories / David M. Shribman; title: A city not on a hill / Joan Wickersham; title: Our chowder / David Michaelis; title: Boston, 1972 / Katherine A. Powers; title: Transplants / Jabari Asim; title: Diamonds (and dugouts) are a girl's best friend / Lesley Visser; title: Next step: Back Bay / Hugh Delehanty; title: Medora goes to the game / George Plimpton; title: The everything bagel / Leslie Epstein; title: Wounded, Boston's heart remains strong / Bud Collins; title: So you want to be in pictures / Nell Scovell; title: America's brain / Israel Horovitz; title: Front row on the Charles / Shira Springer; title: Messing with the wrong city / Dennis Lehane; title: Boston a la carte / Susan Sheehan; title: Our Boston and theirs / James Atlas; title: Bothering Bill Russell / Leigh Montville; title: From somewhere / Tova Mirvis; title: Boston marriage / Pagan Kennedy; title: Reading around Boston / Scott Stossel; title: Souvenir of the ancient world / Robert Pinsky; title: Boston sports: something for everyone to love...and complain about / Bill Littlefield; title: The landscape of home / Carlo Rotella; title: Thinking locally, acting globally / Neil Swidey; title: Jamaica Pond: my Walden / Jessica Shattuck; title: Hub fans bid kid adieu / John Updike; title: The classroom of the real / Pico Iyer; title: This is the way I point my view / Sally Taylor.