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City by City
Harvard Book Store welcomes co-editor STEPHEN SQUIBB for a discussion of the book City by City: Dispatches from the American Metropolis, published by FSG and n+1. Stephen is joined by contributors GREG AFINOGENOV, DAN ALBERT, and ANNIE WYMAN.
Edited by Keith Gessen and Stephen Squibb, City by City is a collection of essays—historical, personal, and somewhere in between—about the present and future of American cities. It sweeps from Gold Rush, Alaska, to Miami, Florida, encompassing cities large and small, growing and failing. These essays look closely at the forces—gentrification, underemployment, politics, culture, and crime—that shape urban life. They also tell the stories of citizens whose fortunes have risen or fallen with those of the cities they call home.
A cross between Hunter S. Thompson, Studs Terkel, and the Great Depression-era WPA guides to each state in the Union, City by City carries this project of American storytelling up to the days of our own Great Recession.
