Before & after
Subtitle: stories from New York
By: edited by Thomas Beller
Publisher: Mr. Beller's Neighborhood Books
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780393323535
Subjects: Personal narratives; September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001; Anecdotes
Description: A collection of essays concerned with New York City before and after the World Trade Center terrorist attacks.
Notes: Same title on separate title pages; works issued back to back and inverted.
Table of contents: title: v. 1. Introduction : Before / Thomas Beller; title: A pantomime of no / Leelila Strogov; title: The Bowery scene / Rick Rofihe; title: Fish abuse at Vanity Fair / Alexander Chancellor; title: Fifty-eight inches of ambiance / Heather Byer; title: Memo to CBS : Electronic Ed is your man! / Thomas Beller; title: Sal the barber and the make-believe ballroom / Jim Merlis; title: The hundred views / Said Shirazi; title: My secret socks life / Jeannette Winterson; title: Kissing the cab driver / Maura Kelly; title: The dynamite brothers meet the slapper / Snooder Greenberg; title: The Tompkins Square Park Riot, 1988 / Luc Sante; title: To the man who forgot his new books ... / Carolyn Murnick; title: Mother's Day / E. Franke; title: In a swamp of reusable souls / Rebecca Donner; title: Wedding proposal at Café Loup / Meghan Daum & Thomas Beller; title: Old boilers and old men / Nick Mamatas; title: The coffee hut slut / Ariele Fierman; title: Code blue : as police officer unwinds / Denise Campbell; title: Kenny Colman's elevator logic / Zachary Levin; title: Tom's Restaurant / Vince Passaro; title: Visit with a drag queen / Michael Cunningham; title: Harlem love story / Denise Campbell; title: Speed freaks / Susan Connell-Mettauer; title: One stroke / Snooder Greenberg; title: The turtles in Central Park / Thomas Beller; title: Trash like white elephants / Minter Krotzer; title: The jumper / Manny Howard; title: The parakeet book / Josh Kramer; title: Everybody poops / Sabin Streeter; title: Buddy's departure / Josh Gilbert; title: Introduction : After / Thomas Beller; title: Witnessing / Debra Fontaine; title: The view from the WTC Plaza / Charles Waters; title: Don't look back / Kevin McLeod; title: The ashen guy / Thomas Beller; title: Forever falling / Greg Purcell; title: The numbers / Bryan Charles; title: On giving blood / Carolyn Murnick; title: Something about Jack / Tom Cushman; title: The tourist / Lauren Grodstein; title: Scenes from Astoria / Sam Lipsyte; title: This is bad / Elizabeth Grove; title: The view from Long Island / Adam Baer; title: Maybe a girl who loves the ocean / Amy Brill; title: Profiteers and souvenirs : an eBay story / Debbie Nathan; title: The scene at Union Square Park / Alex Abramovich; title: Don DeLillo and the Twin Towers / Vince Passaro; title: Cosmetics plus (and minus) / Betsy Andrews; title: God must be an octopus / Dorothy Spears; title: A grand candelabra / Elizabeth Seay; title: Urban renewal / Sean Ramsay; title: Pet detectives / Bram Gunther; title: Bones / Joseph Lieber; title: Ashes / Phillip Lopate; title: Reflections of a savage / Saïd Sayrafiezadeh; title: Zen and the syntax of disaster / Paul W. Morris; title: Winged / Anne Kovach; title: Terror at the local deli / Josh Gilbert; title: I'm so glad you're alive / Elizabeth Grove; title: The good soldiers / Phillip Lopate.