Word: manhattanization
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...Love Me Yet, novelist Jonathan Lethem returns to the territory that has proved particularly fruitful for him this past decade - his home town of New York City. Yet, unlike Motherless Brooklyn and The Fortress of Solitude, his latest, Chronic City, is set across the East River, in a Manhattan just a few degrees askew from reality. Lethem spoke to TIME about the American obsession with its own pop culture and why book readings are typically a snore...
There are many surreal elements in Chronic City: a mysterious fog, snow in the summer, a giant tiger. Is there something about Manhattan that makes it an unreal place in your mind? It's both real and unreal. The pressure of money and ambition and the forces of aspiration and yearning that make up that island also make it into kind of a virtual reality. There's something about Manhattan that's half a concept. People are living inside this concept as much as inside the real territory. But it is also real, and I wanted to capture the texture...
...Wasserstein also had an unusual side interest for a man with a financial career—journalism. In 2004, he purchased New York Magazine, which tracks the key players of Manhattan life each week...
...upstate New York, the past year has seen a miniboom in sophisticated new retreats opening in the resort communities surrounding New York City. While these escapes are packed during the summer high season, the arrival of autumn means lower prices, temperatures and crowd levels. Need to get out of Manhattan? Here are three of the hinterland's best beds...
...BEDFORD POST Fall brings an explosion of color to the dense forests and backcountry trails of Bedford, a posh village just an hour north of Manhattan that's a favorite with the horsey set. Bedford is also home to such bold namers as Glenn Close, George Soros and Richard Gere, who recently opened the Bedford Post, BedfordPostInn.com, with wife Carey Lowell. With its in-house yoga studio and elegant gardens, Gere's B&B is the town's most ambitious stab at a true luxury hideaway. Housed in a 247-year-old building, each of the Post's eight rooms...