Bibliograph

Our Boston, writers celebrate the city they love, edited by Andrew Blauner

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Our Boston, writers celebrate the city they love, edited by Andrew Blauner

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Our Boston

Oclc number

844728055

Responsibility statement

edited by Andrew Blauner

Sub title

writers celebrate the city they love

Table Of Contents

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

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