I really enjoyed reading "Pausing by Ground Zero, the New York Arrives." The U.S.S. New York sailed into New York Harbor Monday after its maiden voyage. The ship's homecoming arrival into the bay marked the end of its maiden voyage and its official commissioning into the Navy fleet. The ship acknowledges the terrorist attacks of September 11th with 7.5 tons of World Trade Center steel cast in its bow.
The U.S.S. New York has a quiet symbolism for our country. The ship stands for our remembrance of the victims of 9/11 and our steadfast perseverence, our nation's strength in being able to pick up the pieces and move on.
Essayist Joan Didion, has a new piece out titled "Goodbye to All That." The essay is a "famous elegy for the passing of youth, but also a catalogue of Manhattan's enervating cliches, and, implicitly, a rejection of the New York literary scene she inhabited." The essay is both a cynical and poignant commentary on the life of writers, publishers, and editors in the changing modern literary scene. Joan Didion tends to use techniques of New Journalism or creative nonfiction and I have always been a fan of her work. Maybe when I get some needed down-time, I can read this latest work by Didion.
The U.S.S. New York has a quiet symbolism for our country. The ship stands for our remembrance of the victims of 9/11 and our steadfast perseverence, our nation's strength in being able to pick up the pieces and move on.
Essayist Joan Didion, has a new piece out titled "Goodbye to All That." The essay is a "famous elegy for the passing of youth, but also a catalogue of Manhattan's enervating cliches, and, implicitly, a rejection of the New York literary scene she inhabited." The essay is both a cynical and poignant commentary on the life of writers, publishers, and editors in the changing modern literary scene. Joan Didion tends to use techniques of New Journalism or creative nonfiction and I have always been a fan of her work. Maybe when I get some needed down-time, I can read this latest work by Didion.
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