Ann Petry's The Street and Diane di Prima's Recollections of My Life as a Woman: The New York Years
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Did you know I was born in New York? My mom was born in Manhattan and my dad was born in Hoboken, and I was born in a mountain village north of White Plains about thirty years after them. Growing up, my culture was a New York City culture, filled with black-and-white cookies and corned beef sandwiches and that massive blue whale hanging in the Museum of Natural History. Though my family decamped to Pennsylvania by the time I had figured out how to ollie on a skateboard, I still feel tethered to NYC in some emotional or generational way. You think I root for the New York Football Giants, even while living here in Philadelphia, for my health?
Ann Petry's The Street and Diane di Prima's Recollections of My Life as a Woman: The New York Years
Ann Petry's The Street and Diane di Prima's…
Ann Petry's The Street and Diane di Prima's Recollections of My Life as a Woman: The New York Years
Did you know I was born in New York? My mom was born in Manhattan and my dad was born in Hoboken, and I was born in a mountain village north of White Plains about thirty years after them. Growing up, my culture was a New York City culture, filled with black-and-white cookies and corned beef sandwiches and that massive blue whale hanging in the Museum of Natural History. Though my family decamped to Pennsylvania by the time I had figured out how to ollie on a skateboard, I still feel tethered to NYC in some emotional or generational way. You think I root for the New York Football Giants, even while living here in Philadelphia, for my health?