New Yawk Lives On
Lamenting the loss of the old-school New York? Missing the junkies on the corner, the graffiti on the A train, or the unintelligible New Yorkese? Still looking for a truly grimy LES or the hell in Hell’s Kitchen? Having trouble finding it all?
National Book Award nominee, Richard Price keeps an older New York alive in his eight novels. In his latest, Lush Life, which received laudatory comments in the New York Times and the New Yorker, an NYPD detective ends up investigating a murder that lets the reader unravel the social fabric of a downtown neighborhood. It’s gritty; it’s tough; and it can provoke pangs of nostalgia. If some of the vernacular sounds familiar, you may be recalling certain episodes Price has written for the The Wire.
